Perpetual virginity of mary lateran council
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Though not an Ecumenical Council, the Lateran Council of convened by Pope Martin I also issued an important statement affirming Mary's lifelong virginity : If anyone does not, according to the Holy Fathers, confess truly and properly that holy Mary, ever virgin and immaculate, is Mother of God, since in this latter age she.
This doctrine is confirmed by two other Ecumenical Councils, the Fourth Lateran Council () (DS ) and the Second Council of Lyons () (DS ), and by the text of the definition of the dogma of the Assumption () (DS ) in which Mary's perpetual virginity is adopted as one of the reasons why she was.
Description:But the word "firstborn" literally means "a child not preceded by another" and, in itself, makes no reference to the existence of other children. Origen d , by contrast, taught Mary's perpetual virginity. Dogmatic Status and Meaning Q: Hence, some argue that this statement was not a dogmatic definition, even though it was issued within a definitory document.
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