{"id":166,"date":"2009-09-12T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/09\/12\/perpetual-virginity-of-mary-2\/"},"modified":"2009-09-12T20:14:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T20:14:00","slug":"perpetual-virginity-of-mary-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/2009\/09\/12\/perpetual-virginity-of-mary-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Perpetual Virginity of Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to a goarch article<\/a> on the Ever-Virginity of Mary. Here’s their comments on the historical question:<\/p>\n

Indeed, to suggest (a) that the tradition about her perpetual virginity could have been introduced after apostolic times, (b) that this tradition would have gone little noticed by a Church in the throes of questioning everything about what it believed in the first millennium, (c) that such a novel tradition should be considered inconsequential enough to pass without discussion before it became universally proclaimed, and (d) that such a tradition should have no discernible literary or geographical origin and yet be universally accepted from very early in the Church’s history, is to form a very unlikely hypothesis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a link to a goarch article on the Ever-Virginity of Mary. Here’s their comments on the historical question: Indeed, to suggest (a) that the tradition about her perpetual virginity could have been introduced after apostolic times, (b) that this tradition would have gone little noticed by a Church in the throes of questioning everything […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-theotokos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/douglasgilliland.com\/theology\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}