Concept
Immaculate Conception
Overview
The Immaculate Conception is the doctrine that the Virgin Mary was free of original sin from the moment of her conception. It is one of the four Marian dogmas of the Catholic Church. Debated by medieval theologians, it was not defined as a dogma until 1854, by Pope Pius IX in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus. While the Immaculate Conception asserts Mary's freedom from original sin, the Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563, had previously non-dogmatically affirmed her freedom from personal sin.
While they have different theological emphases, the Eastern Catholic Churches, just like the Latin Church, fully affirm the dogma.
The Immaculate Conception became a popular subject in literature, but its abstract nature meant it was late in appearing as a subject in works of art. The iconography of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception shows Mary standing, with arms outstretched or hands clasped in prayer. The feast day of the Immaculate Conception is December 8.
Many Protestant churches rejected the doctrine of the Immaculate Conception as unscriptural, though some Anglicans accept it as a pious devotion.
The Eastern Orthodox Church rejects the doctrine. The teaching on the Immaculate Conception among the Oriental Orthodox churches varies: Shenouda III, Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the Patriarch Ignatius Zakka I of the Syriac Orthodox Church opposed the teaching, while the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church accept it.
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Therefore God is not the object of this science. _On the contrary,_ The object of the science is that of which it principally treats. But in this science, the treatment is mainly about God; for it is called theology, as treating of God. Therefore God is the object of this science.
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
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4. An imperfect conception, disengaged by abortion, makes the womb of the mother to extend, as if there were a perfect conception, and as if something great would at length come forth: but before it is brought forth, it perishes, and never sees the sun. 5.
Martin Luther, A manual of the book of Psalms
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Now this statement does not express clearly what he means. However, let us scrutinize his extravagance. It is plain that this union took place either at the moment of conception or at the moment of resurrection. But if it happened at the moment of conception, Eutyches seems to think that even before conception He had human flesh, not taken from Mary but prepared in some other way, while the Virgin Mary was brought…
Boethius, The Theological Tractates and The Consolation of Philosophy
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Philosophers who discussed Immaculate Conception
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- God in Christianity
- Scotism
- Anglicanism
- Gospel of Luke
- Ambrose
- Council of Florence
- Justin Martyr
- Latin
- Middle Ages
- Doctrine
- Grace in Christianity
- Thomas Aquinas
- Original sin
- Pope John Paul II
- Protestantism
- Revelation
- Sicily
- Church Fathers
- Doctor of the Church
- Duns Scotus
- John of Damascus
- Bohemia
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Place in the tradition
Part of Spanish philosophy.