Perpetual virginity of Mary - Spiritual significance of the doctrine

The perpetual virginity of Mary is a doctrine of faith of Roman and Eastern Orthodox Catholic Christianity, as well of Islam, stating that Mary, the mother of Jesus, remained an actual virgin, implying both "virginal disposition" and "physical integrity", before, during, and after the birth of Jesus, and thus is titled ever-Virgin (in Greek ἀειπάρθενος). This included the conception and birth of Jesus, and the remainder of the life of Mary. God is believed to have ar ...

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• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Relevant scriptural citations
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Continuity over time
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Expressed in iconography
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Protestant Dissent
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - External references
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Footnotes
• Perpetual virginity of Mary - Bibliography

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Perpetual virginity of Mary - Earliest centuries. The virginity of Mary was, from the earliest years of the faith, considered as hidden a mystery as the death of the Savior. "The virginity of Mary, her giving birth, and also the death of the Lord, were hidden from the prince of this world: — three mysteries loudly proclaimed, but wrought in the silence of God" (St. Ignatius of Antioch [3], died c. 107, Jurgens §42). These elements of faith are, in this very early example, given some sense o ...

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1 Luther in Works 45, 206f: Scripture does not quibble or speak about the virginity of Mary after the birth of Christ, a matter about which the hypocrites are greatly concerned, as if it were something of the utmost importance on which our whole salvation depended. Actually, we should be satisfied simply to hold that she remained a virgin after the birth of Christ because Scripture does not state or indicate that she later lost her virginity... But the Scripture stops with this, that she was a virgin before and at the birth of ...

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While the reformers and the body of the protestant creeds (e.g. the Second Helvetic Confession [9]) emphasize the virginity of Mary at Jesus' birth based on the biblical report, the reformation principle of "sola scriptura" kept any reference to the tradition of perpetual virginity of Mary out of the Reformation creeds. While the virgin birth of Jesus was seen as important element of the divinity of Christ, there was a strong reaction on one side against the veneration of Mary and the other saints (seen as sacrilege, Calvin's Institut ...

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