To: Salvation
To: The Ignorant Fisherman
Did you read the article?
Luther, Calvin, Zwingli all agree with the perpetual virgin issue.
In fact they are quoted in the article.
13 posted on
05/09/2010 8:43:22 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: The Ignorant Fisherman
14 posted on
05/09/2010 8:43:53 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
To: The Ignorant Fisherman
Did you miss these in the article above?
- Luther, true to Catholic tradition, wrote on the Virginity of Mary:
- It is an article of faith that Mary is Mother of the Lord and still a virgin. ... Christ, we believe, came forth from a womb left perfectly intact. (Weimer's The Works of Luther, English translation by Pelikan, Concordia, St. Louis, v.11, pp. 319-320; v. 6. p. 510.)
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The French reformer John Calvin (1509-1564) also held that Mary was the Mother of God
- It cannot be denied that God in choosing and destining Mary to be the Mother of his Son, granted her the highest honor. ... Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord, because the unity of the person in the two natures of Christ was such that she could have said that the mortal man engendered in the womb of Mary was at the same time the eternal God. (Calvini Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Braunschweig-Berlin, 1863-1900, v. 45, p. 348, 35.)
- On the perpetual virginity of Mary, "Calvin routinely brushes aside the difficulties sometimes raised from "first born" and "brothers of the Lord."" (O'Carroll, M., 1983, Theotokos, M Glazier, Inc.: Wilmington, DE, p. 94.)
- On the perpetual virginity of Mary, Zwingli wrote,
- I firmly believe that Mary, according to the words of the gospel as a pure Virgin brought forth for us the Son of God and in childbirth and after childbirth forever remained a pure, intact Virgin. (Zwingli Opera, Corpus Reformatorum, Berlin, 1905, v. 1, p. 424.)
- In another place Zwingli professed
- I esteem immensely the Mother of God, the ever chaste, immaculate Virgin Mary ...; Christ ... was born of a most undefiled Virgin. (Stakemeier, E. in De Mariologia et Oecumenismo, Balic, K., ed., Rome, 1962, p. 456.)
15 posted on
05/09/2010 8:49:34 PM PDT by
Salvation
("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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