1 posted on
04/06/2007 4:42:53 AM PDT by
IrishMike
To: IrishMike
It’s not about Mary; it’s about Jesus.
2 posted on
04/06/2007 4:53:07 AM PDT by
CalvaryJohn
(What is keeping that damned asteroid?)
To: IrishMike
One of the things that has surprised me, as I explore early Christian spirituality and the Eastern Church, is that there is so little interest in gender division. There arent separate types of prayer or spiritual disciplines for men as opposed to women, or for Greek rather than Arab or Egyptian Christians, or for rich versus poor Christians none of that seems to matter. In Western Christianity, of course, we hear a great deal about tailor-made spirituality, right down to personality type; it fits the grid of our consumer culture. But in these texts theres very little interest in Marys femininity; all the emphasis is on her humanity. She is the Theotokos, the God-bearer in the sense of bearing a child; her example invites all people everywhere to be Theophorus, God-bearersin the sense of bearing Gods presence like a candlewick bears a flame.Good observation.
3 posted on
04/06/2007 5:00:40 AM PDT by
siunevada
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To: IrishMike
Interesting article.
One of the things that has surprised me, as I explore early Christian spirituality and the Eastern Church, is that there is so little interest in gender division. There arent separate types of prayer or spiritual disciplines for men as opposed to women, or for Greek rather than Arab or Egyptian Christians, or for rich versus poor Christians none of that seems to matter.
So playing up gender is progress? Reminds me of Chesterton's swipe at modern thought: "chronological snobbery."
5 posted on
04/06/2007 5:03:54 AM PDT by
Aquinasfan
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8 posted on
04/06/2007 6:48:50 AM PDT by
narses
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