the Eastern Orthodox and Catholicism share a belief in the perpetual virginity and the sinlessness of Mary (e.g. setting aside the question of whether she was born in original sin--she remained free from personal participation in sin by an act or omission of will)
Well, you’re both a person and a substance and you have a mother. She is mother of both your person and your substance
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God is three persons in one substance. If Mary is the mother of one of the persons of the trinity but not the other two...
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... to call her the “Mother of God” is at best metonym and so unlikely to be welcome to those who are dealing with monophysites
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Hmmm I’m going to vote “no” on that one >In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning.
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Austin, too, in
#DeTrinitate, does the same thing in calling the#HolySpirit the love of God, and he proves it exegetically.
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I confess as an article of faith that, since Jesus is God and Mary is his mother, Mary is the mother of God according to his humanity.
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