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| Foreword | |
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| Prologue | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: Mapping the Quest | |
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| Searching for Mary Over the Centuries | |
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| Initiating the Search: Obstacles, Detours, and New Pathways | |
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| An Obstacle for Some Catholic Women: "The Perfect Mary" | |
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| Detours over the Centuries | |
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| New Pathways: History and Scripture | |
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| Questions for Further Exploration | |
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| Jewish-Christian Relations and the Feminist Dialogue | |
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| Feminists in Faith and Mary | |
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| Taking the First Steps in Our Quest | |
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| Mary in History, Doctrine, and Devotionalism: From the Early Church Through the Renaissance | |
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| The Early Church | |
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| The Virginity of Mary and the Virgin Birth | |
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| Mary in Early Christian Art | |
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| Goddess Imagery | |
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| Prayer to Mary | |
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| Mary and the Early Ecumenical Councils | |
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| Mary in the Middle Ages | |
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| Mary in the Protestant Reformation | |
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| Mary in the Catholic Reform | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Mary in History, Doctrine, and Devotionalism: From the Enlightenment Through Vatican II | |
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| Mary in an Age of Absolutism | |
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| The Enlightenment | |
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| Disparaging Mary: The French Revolution and Napoleon | |
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| Mary in the Nineteenth Century: Devotion and Doctrine | |
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| Mary in the Neo-Thomistic Revival: 1920-1960 | |
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| Mary and Vatican II | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Discovering the Jewish Mary | |
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| Will the Real Mary Please Stand Up?: Multidisciplinary Approaches to a New Question | |
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| Mary in Historical Studies | |
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| Biblical Scholarship Regarding Mary | |
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| New Theological Interpretations | |
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| Mary in Recent Catholic Feminist Theology | |
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| Mary in Spirituality and Culture | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Searching for the Jewish Jesus to Find the Jewish Mary | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Suppression of the Jewish Jesus | |
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| Christian Quests for the Historical Jesus | |
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| The Jewish Search for Jesus | |
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| Jesus and the Pharisees | |
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| The Pharisees, Jesus, and the Early Christians | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Jewish Spirituality and Hebrew Prayer: Praying as Mary Prayed | |
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| Jewish Spirituality | |
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| Mary and Jewish Prayer | |
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| Ignatian Contemplation | |
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| Contemplations | |
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| Annunciation and the Visitation | |
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| The Birth of Jesus | |
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| Jesus' Early Public Ministry and Cana | |
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| Crucifixion and Resurrection | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |