"For almost a century Anglicans have been singing the great hymn composed by Athelstan Riley, "Oh Higher than the Cherubim, More Glorious than the Seraphim" . . . its Mariological content remains invisible to the average Episcopalian."

I am beginning to suspect that no matter how “orthodox” we Protestants think we are in our doctrine of the Incarnation, we in fact are not. We have not faithfully appropriated the orthodox doctrine, because we have deleted Mary from the Church’s life of worship and prayer. This deletion of Mary is both evidence of our deficiency in our understanding of the Incarnation and a cause of this deficiency. Something is very wrong when our teaching of Christ does not generate the kind of hymnody, veneration, and devotion that is common in Orthodoxy and Catholicism.