[count-your-change]

I'm sure you well know what the term authoritative means and how it pertains to references to someones writings.

“So an analogy is that the first human step in our redemption could be said to have been taken by Mary (in all the ways Irenaeus says) but of course it takes the second Adam to perfect it.”

No, not quite. But when you no longer “feel unclear in my expression and fuzzy in my alleged mind.” we'll have to talk again.

[Mad Dawg]

I know what "authoritative" means, I guess. What I don't get is what is authorized. It seems that a protracted analogy is authorized. The only thing resembling a theological proposition is that creatures can play a sort of supporting role in their redemption.

“So an analogy is that the first human step in our redemption could be said to have been taken by Mary (in all the ways Irenaeus says) but of course it takes the second Adam to perfect it.”

No, not quite.

Well, in what did I go astray?