As a guide to thought and to the consideration of the piety of others, I offer this: An IQ of 100 is average. This ought to enter into our thinking when we listen to pious conversation. Some people are not gifted with vivid imaginations or great articulateness. Many cannot talk holding the big picture in one hand and the matter under consideration in the other.
I would not go to de Montfort for theology. For enthusiasm, yeah! Saturday in "formation" I was yapping about de Montfort and calling him "delightfully crazy", and one off the other novices, who is doing a degree in Patristics, cracked up and agreed.
Yesterday I was in the super-market and I was accosted by a boy with Down's Syndrome. He asked if he could try on my motor cycle helmet. I assured his mother that I did not think I had head lice and helped him put it on. He looked great. He got a real and valid, albeit small, piece of the whole deal of riding a motor cycle. I wouldn't expect him to be able to say with rigor what he experienced. But it was clearly important to him. He had an imagination. He was using and enjoying it.
Then there's the question of how to tease out what "human nature" is apart from sin. If I say, as I do, that Mary was fully human, I readily admit that I am not saying she is "usual". (The word "normal" is tricky here, because it has the prescriptive connotation of "norm".) "Normal" or "full" humans are unusual.
I think I understand your points and their reasonableness in your perspective.
Thanks.
I keep the screen names in a Word file for copying and pasting in when wanted.
I suspect that most of my cohorts would just as soon I didn’t bother them so much but are too kind to say so.
I still prefer to keep the family informed of my crazy doings.
They might just have a correction or a better idea.