The fundamental problem with the innovative Immaculate Conception doctrine is that it cannot admit of the transformation of our fallen nature into the New Man at the moment of the Incarnation. If the Holy Virigin did not share in our fallen nature, it was not ontologically made new by the hypostatic union, and we are not saved. Mariologi…
The fundamental problem with the innovative Immaculate Conception doctrine is that it cannot admit of the transformation of our fallen nature into the New Man at the moment of the Incarnation. If the Holy Virigin did not share in our fallen nature, it was not ontologically made new by the hypostatic union, and we are not saved. Mariological heresy always results in Christological and soteriological heresy. It is noteworthy that the proponents of the new doctrine were found chiefly among the romantic Franciscans, whose *plani* was significantly more advanced than that of the Cistercians (Bernard) and Dominicans (Aquinas), who represented earlier and more sober stages of the degeneration of the Western Christian phronema.
The fundamental problem with the innovative Immaculate Conception doctrine is that it cannot admit of the transformation of our fallen nature into the New Man at the moment of the Incarnation. If the Holy Virigin did not share in our fallen nature, it was not ontologically made new by the hypostatic union, and we are not saved. Mariological heresy always results in Christological and soteriological heresy. It is noteworthy that the proponents of the new doctrine were found chiefly among the romantic Franciscans, whose *plani* was significantly more advanced than that of the Cistercians (Bernard) and Dominicans (Aquinas), who represented earlier and more sober stages of the degeneration of the Western Christian phronema.
Well said, Fr.