Evidently that is exactly the precision the early Church was looking for by using “Theotokos”: it affirms Mary’s role as God-bearer in her motherhood of Jesus in the flesh and in time, and avoids the misconception that she was somehow his mother from eternity, or the source of his Godhood.
“Evidently that is exactly the precision the early Church was looking for by using “Theotokos”: it affirms Mary’s role as God-bearer in her motherhood of Jesus in the flesh and in time, and avoids the misconception that she was somehow his mother from eternity, or the source of his Godhood.”
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