tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post6518498377702200733..comments2024-03-05T06:16:30.628-06:00Comments on Mary and Mariology: The Flesh of Mary in Transitus: serving as bridge between Christ and humanityServant of Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13686441055922333147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post-689109019102397332012-04-14T18:47:00.473-05:002012-04-14T18:47:00.473-05:00I agree: lovely argument! I think you have gotten...I agree: lovely argument! I think you have gotten it exactly right when you say Mary is both mold and model, clay and pot (lovely metaphors!). On the one hand, her body is absolutely unique, for it was the unique source of the unique Incarnation, as unique as Christ himself. But on the other, she is wholly human and therefore shares with all of us (human beings) a human ending (and hope). I particularly liked the way you developed our understanding of her relationship with Christ both as uniquely his ("Christ's alone") and as a model for his relationship with our humanity.<br /><br />RLFBServant of Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686441055922333147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post-56755199206938878252012-04-12T20:58:42.509-05:002012-04-12T20:58:42.509-05:00FL: You have made a very nice argument here. Your ...FL: You have made a very nice argument here. Your exposition of the readings–especially, but not limited to the Christ-Mary, Mary-humanity linkage–is convincing. I also think that you are right about the necessity of Mary’s flesh. It seems to me that Proclus makes that case emphatically. But, of course, as you mention, just as the combination of God and man require adjustments to how the early Christians think and write about Christ, the paradoxes of Mary’s relationship both as mother to Jesus and subject of God is on display in her behavior in his presence in the narratives.<br /><br />I understand your approach of taking the “pulp” of the different accounts and extracting consistent “truth” (Christians do the same with the accounts of Saul’s encounter with the Lord on the road to Damascus). Do you (or does anyone else) have any suggestions about what is to be done with the elements that are narrative “outliers?”<br /><br />~TAServant of Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686441055922333147noreply@blogger.com