Theotokos

Definitions

Synonym of Mary, mother of Jesus, in particular reference to her role giving birth to God.

Equivalents

Examples

“It is then an integral portion of the Faith fixed by Ecumenical Council, a portion of it which you hold⟳ as well as I, that the Blessed Virgin is Theotocos, Deipara, or Mother of God; and this word, when thus used, carries with it no admixture of rhetoric, no taint of extravagant affection,—it has nothing else but a well-weighed, grave, dogmatic sense⟳ […]”

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