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• W4381988052 abstract "The Fittingness of Mary's Virginity in Birth John Baptist Ku, O.P. THIS ARTICLE WILL consider the fittingness of Mary's virginity in birth, in three sections. First, to establish the definitiveness of the doctrine, I will conduct a brief review of early patristic teaching on Mary's virginitas in partu, with an appended observation about the most recent confirmation of the doctrine in the teaching of the Second Vatican Council. Second, I will consider some potential difficulties with the teaching, as the problems might be more obvious than the fittingness. Finally, in response to the potential difficulties, I will note the three reasons that St. Thomas Aquinas gives for Mary's virginity in birth in the Summa theologiae, and I will propose the addition of a fourth Thomistic reason. This last reason, which appeals to the fact that Christ had the beatific vision from the moment of his conception, is the principal point I wish to present. The rest provides context for my modest contribution. I. Early Patristic Witnesses and the Most Recent Confirmation Mary's perpetual virginity has been held from the beginning of the Church's life. Not to be flippant, but obviously Mary knew that she was perpetually a virgin. And her virginity in birth is affirmed rather graphically in an early apocryphal gospel. The Protoevangelium of James (ca. 145) recounts a tale of the midwife who was serving Mary informing one Salome [End Page 451] that Mary had miraculously remained a virgin in birth. In anticipation of Thomas the Apostle, Salome said that unless she verified this fact with her own fingers, she would not believe. She was so bold as to do so, whereupon her hand started to burn and she repented of her boldness and lack of faith; she was healed only when she held the Christ child.1 The explicitness of this early witness, though not canonical, is significant in that it establishes that the idea of Mary's virginity in birth was in circulation.2 This strengthens the claims of authors like Joseph Plumpe that Ignatius of Antioch (d. ca. 110) and Justin Martyr (d. 165) intimate and presuppose Mary's virginity in birth, even though they do not make the assertion explicitly.3 That explicit assertion would come some fifty years later in Irenaeus (d. ca. 202)4 and Clement of [End Page 452] Alexandria (d. ca. 215).5 Other great figures, like Gregory of Nazianzus (d. 390), Gregory of Nyssa (d. 395), Ambrose (d. 397), Jerome (d. 420), and Augustine (d. 430), would follow suit with an explicit articulation of the teaching.6 We then come to magisterial authorities. Leo the Great's letter of 449 affirming the virginitas in partu was approved by the Council of Chalcedon in 451.7 After Leo, Pope Hormisdas would repeat the teaching. Subsequently, the Council of Constantinople II (553) described Mary as aeiparthenos, evervirgin.8 Although more skeptical commentators note that Constantinople did not specify explicitly that aeiparthenos included virginity in birth, the preceding affirmations over four hundred years hardly leave that in doubt.9 Two more popes, Pelagius I [End Page 453] and Gregory the Great, would explicitly affirm Mary's virginity in birth; and the Lateran Council of 649—not an ecumenical council—would articulate the threefold teaching that Mary's virginity was preserved before birth, in birth, and after birth.10 Finally, in 1555—while the Council of Trent, an ecumenical council, was in session—Pope Paul IV defended Mary's virginity in partu, and the catechism authorized by that same council teaches explicitly that Mary remained a virgin even in giving birth to Christ.11 Evidence regarding the constancy of the teaching down to our own times can be seen in Lumen Gentium, which declares that the birth of Our Lord . . . did not diminish His mother's virginal integrity but sanctified it.12 This has an augmented significance because the doctrine was challenged and reinterpreted by a number of authors in the mid-twentieth century. In Vessel of Honor: The Virgin Birth and the Ecclesiology of Vatican II, Brian Graebe writes that the years between 1952 and 1964 represent arguably the..." @default.
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• W4381988052 title "The Fittingness of Mary's Virginity in Birth" @default.
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