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.
I still believe. There's a lot of legacy materials in here from when I attended seminary, etc. I don't necessarily agree with myself anymore.
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Perpetual Virginity of Mary
Here's a link to a goarch article on the Ever-Virginity of Mary. Here's their comments on the historical question:
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