The Real Mary: Why Evangelical Christians Can Embrace the Mother of Jesus

About this book

Would you like to meet the real Mary of Nazareth? The real Mary was an unmarried pregnant teenage girl in first-century Palestine. She was a woman of courage humility spirit and resolve and her response to the angel Gabriel shifted the tectonic plates of history. Join popular biblical scholar Scot McKnight explores the contours of Marys life from the moment she learned of Gods plan for the Messiah to the culmination of Christs ministry on earth. McKnight dismantles the myths and challenges our prejudices introducing us to a woman who is a model for faith and who points us to her Son.