tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post9004469023885862435..comments2024-03-05T06:16:30.628-06:00Comments on Mary and Mariology: How Should We Read the Apocrypha?Servant of Maryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13686441055922333147noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post-76527701762534454762015-10-12T11:14:17.391-05:002015-10-12T11:14:17.391-05:00Exactly! We are trying to make sense of the tradit...Exactly! We are trying to make sense of the tradition in its own terms: why do the authors of our ancient texts give the details that they do about Mary and her Son? This is very much what I hope we are able to do in our discussions this quarter! RLFBServant of Maryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13686441055922333147noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7155226280212467063.post-23398489946951317752015-10-09T08:45:01.550-05:002015-10-09T08:45:01.550-05:00We might indeed see the whole of our class, or at ...We might indeed see the whole of our class, or at least a very large chunk of it, as grappling with how people have done precisely what you describe Jacobus, ps. James, and ps. Matthew as doing: drawing from a scattered tradition in order to "show how that information is meaningful and how it concords with other significant truths of faith" with Mary as the linchpin of that effort. The idea of Mary as linchpin in turn, I think, speaks to some of the questions you raise at the end of your post. Mary is <i>the</i> connection between Christ and humanity, the means by which human and divine were joined. Her role, Christ's human origins, is thus vital to understanding who Christ is in the first place, and since Christianity itself turns on the question of Christ, it is vital for those attempting to make sense of the faith. The focus on infancy also points to this, Christ in the Gospels can strike us as imposing and mysterious, but what's more human than a child? What can speak more of Christ's connection to humanity, and thus to <i>us</i> than how he was at his weakest and most new and how his mother links him to us? dyingsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02087241514388178221noreply@blogger.com