On Thu, 25 Jul 1996, Thomas Izbicki wrote:
> A move away from affirming bodily functions in holy persons might be seen
> in descriptions of the birth of Christ. The line which memory yields is
> "like light through a glass." I also wonder about the Immaculate
> Conception, not in its theological specifics but in its removing not
> just Jesus but Mary a step from the rest of us sinful humans as
> representing some vaguely Monophysite tendency in Western piety. (This
> leaves aside more recent fuss over The Last Temptation of Christ.)
>
> tom izbicki
Sin is not ontologically part of human nature; the Immaculate Conception
does not remove Mary even in the slightest a step away from humanness; it
does remove her a huge leap from sin. But the whole point of Christian
theology about sin is that it is unnatural, a deformation, a per-version.
Monophysitism had to do with Christ's human nature--whether he was fully
human apart from sin, so I don't see how the Immaculate Conception
doctrine could have anything at all to do with Monophysitism.
Dennis Martin
Loyola University Chicago
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