True Christians venerate, honor and love Our Lady, perpetual Virgin and Mother of God!
If you do not know Mary you do not really know Jesus!
The Church did not fully clarify Who Jesus Christ is, until She clearly defined who Mary is.
The Church did not fully clarify Who Jesus Christ is, until She clearly defined who Mary is.
Cf. The Theology of Pope Benedict XVI: The Christological Shift, Emery De Gaal, p. 288.
"One of Balthasar's most trenchant critiques of Rahner's Christology is that Rahner cannot finally distinguish between the radical openness to God found in Jesus and that found in Mary, the one who, in the depth of her being said yes to the invitation of the Holy Spirit. The Council of Ephesus is helpful on just this point, because while it famously referred to Mary as Theotokos (God-bearer), it assiduously denied, as we saw, that Jesus could be similarly named. Jesus is not simply greater than Mary; he is somehow else. Are the largely symbolic interpretations that we have been considering (the neo-Nestorianism latent in Kant, Schleiermacher, Tillich and Rahner) capable of articulating this strangeness?" The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism, p. 34.
If Mary is perfect man, then Jesus Christ, her Lord, must be more than just perfect man, He must also be perfect God: the very Person of God!
The miraculous and great dignity of the only perfect creature emphasizes the infinitely greater reality of the Creator.
N.B. Perigrinus
Fifteen Major Heresies and Those Who Fought Them
"One of Balthasar's most trenchant critiques of Rahner's Christology is that Rahner cannot finally distinguish between the radical openness to God found in Jesus and that found in Mary, the one who, in the depth of her being said yes to the invitation of the Holy Spirit. The Council of Ephesus is helpful on just this point, because while it famously referred to Mary as Theotokos (God-bearer), it assiduously denied, as we saw, that Jesus could be similarly named. Jesus is not simply greater than Mary; he is somehow else. Are the largely symbolic interpretations that we have been considering (the neo-Nestorianism latent in Kant, Schleiermacher, Tillich and Rahner) capable of articulating this strangeness?" The Priority of Christ: Toward a Postliberal Catholicism, p. 34.
If Mary is perfect man, then Jesus Christ, her Lord, must be more than just perfect man, He must also be perfect God: the very Person of God!
The miraculous and great dignity of the only perfect creature emphasizes the infinitely greater reality of the Creator.
N.B. Perigrinus
Fifteen Major Heresies and Those Who Fought Them