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
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