It is a great pity that some of them used their imagination to degrade this beautiful image of the feminine, thereby degrading women in general. This has resulted in a Christianity without real women; there are only virgins, mothers, or
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“The Christ is at once whole (totus) in his divinity and whole (totus) in his humanity, of one substance in union with the Father concerning his divinity,”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“In Greek there are at least a dozen different terms for love. Traditionally, philosophers have distinguished a hierarchy of types of love, ranging from those that originate in pathos, a passion-based love (this root even reaches to pathology, which can enslave us), all the way to agape, an unconditional love that asks nothing in return.”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“Did the Christ really become human, or was he only pretending to be a man?”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“Logos is neither uncreated (agenetos) nor created (genetos).”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
“Sexuality cannot be reduced to a means for the propagation of life, for it is a condition of our enjoyment of or loathing of life.”
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
― The Sacred Embrace of Jesus and Mary: The Sexual Mystery at the Heart of the Christian Tradition
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