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Stephen M. Adams wrote:
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>
> OK. I have to correct this. I misread a reference in "A History of
> Christian Thought" by Justo Gonzalez. I should read more carefully
> and verify before I post.

I'll still buy the beer. Or whatever, if you ever make it to Atlanta.

> But, I found only this in my search:
>
> Elizabeth called Mary Mother of the Lord.....the mortal man engendered
> in the womb of Mary was at the same time the Eternal God.
> The Works of Calvin, Berlin, 1863.
>
> So, I think, clearly, he did teach that God was in her womb. But can
> one find a reference where he said "Mother of God" and appears to have
> meant it?? I can't.

One of the sites I read hinted that the problem wasn't that he didn't
hold to the full humanity and diety of Christ, but that he was concerned
about possible abuses that could be associated with the term.

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In article <130.42.13.05.116150000@srcbs.org>, lsenders@hotmail.com says...

>http://adamsemail.net/book/ysktt-chap1.html

>Let it be said from the outset that I do not wish to labor through a
>point vs counter-point debate with the afore mentioned article.

That is too bad, since that is what you would have to do to rebut it
-- if rebuttal were actually possible.

>Rather, I'd rather take a summary reveiw[sic] of some of what has
>been written and provide either a clarification or a counter
>position.

But you haven't done this, either. Your so-called "summary review" was
too diffuse to be a summary, and to incomplete and biased to be called
a 'review'. So to call it a "summary review" is just another or your
weak pretences.

>> For Orthodoxy, there is but one deposit of faith that contains
>> everything that God has given to the Church via the Holy
>> Spirit. The Scriptures are part of this deposit of faith, and thus
>> are part of Holy Tradition. [ch. 2]

>This was defined in the previous paragraph:

>> Holy Tradition is the deposit of the faith, passed on from
>> generation to generation. It includes everything that Jesus Christ,
>> the Holy Spirit and the Apostles have given to the church.

Why are you ignoring this definition, Loren? Unlike your 'definitions'
this one really IS a definition.

>In Ch 1 & 2, there are references made by the early church fathers
>which, at first reading, appear to support the proposition that there
>is some sort of support for "tradition," not only in the OC definition,
>but in the RC definition as well.

Not just "at first reading".

>However, though the OC constantly