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The view of Mary is apparently one that has evolved.
After reading the thread, this sounds like splitting hairs.
After reading the thread, this sounds like splitting hairs.
Also one and two both were a belief quite earlier than the date given, for example the date given for Mother of God (431) was when the ecumenical Council of Ephesus decreed that Mary was Theotokos (one who gives birth to God) in opposition to Nestorius, who, among other things insisted that Mary was simply Christotokos (one who gives birth to Christ). In order for it to have come up it had to be a belief well before that date. Number two is similarly wrong; we have discovered Marian frescoes in the catacombs where persecuted Christians in Rome worshiped in the middle 100s AD.
Both 4 and 5 were also earlier believed, and once again he uses the date that they were proclaimed dogma as the date that people started to believe them. But as is evidenced by the EO belief that is similar to the Assumption (the Dormition) the Assumption, in one form or another, was believed long before 1950. The situation is much the same for Mary Mother of the Church as it is for the Assumption.
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