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Nov 29, 2021 · Mary’s coronation as the Queen of Heaven. It was hard to have a spiritual response when everything was so Mary-centric! When I looked up, Mary’s gaze was the first thing I encountered. Jesus wasn’t even looking at me most of the time! If he wasn’t looking off in the distance, he was looking up at Mary, drawing even more attention to her.
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We just finished reading your excellent article on “How Many Brothers did Jesus Have?” When did this belief begin in the church since several of the reformers including Luther, Calvin, Zwingli and John Wesley all held to the perpetual virginity dogma?
The earliest evidence for the teaching that Mary was a perpetual virgin occurs in the writings of the early church father Jerome who was born in A.D. 347 and died about A.D. 419. Prior to Jerome there is no evidence that the early church taught anything other than the scriptural record – that Jesus had siblings: flesh and blood brothers and sisters...
The teaching that Mary was a perpetual virgin started at about the time the Roman Catholic Church came into existence and continues to this day. However, the scriptures make it clear that Jesus had siblings. Mary was a virgin until the time Jesus was born. Afterward she had children. Otherwise, why did Matthew write these words? The Greek words tha...
1. Jerome, The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary, Against Helvidius, Philip Schaff and Henry Wace, Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1995) Volume VI, pp. 334-346. Please note that some believe Origen (A.D. 248) referred to the belief of Mary’ perpetual virginity in his Commentary on Matthew 2.17. 2. Origen, “The Brethren of...
Communion in the Early Church. The Fractio Panis fresco, early 100’s, is the clearest example we have in catacomb art of the ritual of the Eucharist in the first two hundred years of the Gentile Church in Rome. In the New Testament book of Acts (c. 63-70) there are references to Christians gathering to “break bread,” called an “Agape ...
Jul 1, 2023 · The Early Protestant Reformers largely venerated Mary, when did this sentiment change and why? It was probably around the 17th - 19th centuries that Protestant theology began to change in this regard, due to a change in the way their theological viewpoints on this issue began to be alter as being unfit and possibly looked on as being idolatry.
Dec 8, 2014 · The idea that Mary was Queen, Lady of the Universe (kosmou despoina), and similar titles had been around for at least six centuries before this hymn, and no one had objected. As far as the possibility of syncretism: this might be thought to be the case if there were a specific goddess (for example) whose cultus was local to the places where the ...
May 30, 2023 · The answer may surprise you. Contrary to popular belief, Christianity didn’t arrive in Germany with St. Boniface’s arrival in 8th-century AD. In fact, Christianity came to the Germans many centuries earlier through a Roman soldier named Constantine. “By placing the Edict of Milan in 313 AD which made it lawful for all persons within the ...
Apr 12, 2020 · The question is when did this relationship begin. Hebrews 1:1-2 is speaking about the WORD of God who "spoke" in "times past" and by whom "He made the worlds." It was only in these "last days" that "He has spoken to us by His Son" even though it was the WORD of the Lord--not yet a "Son" that spoke throughout the Old Testament.
