How did the first Christian theologians deal with the question of the feminine aspect of the divine?
The fact that the New Testament all but ignores the Mother of God suggests that its authors avoided the term, probably because of its pagan connotations. However, the early identification of the ‘woman clothed with the sun” (Rev.
12) with the church led to further explorations of the similarity between the church and Mary and the parallelism between Eve and Mary. Just as the last book of the Bible, dealing with the final consummation, begs for comparison with the first, which deals with the beginnings, so the woman of Revelation!2 begs for comparison with the first woman, Eve. We shall investigate how Christian thinkers dealt with this theme and, in the second part of this chapter, sketch the process and the theological discussions that led finally to the establishment of the term “Mary, Mother of God.”
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