Aset Maryam

I am going to shift gears here and hopefully eliminate some confusion. Any one who has read all the messages posted within this blog will note that subject of the blog initially was focused on  the Virgin Mary, who functions as the “feminine divine” within the Christian history.  The blog was named “All things Mary” to reflect that interest. [...]

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Why Mary?

I going to post this from both Sarah Morrigan’s Oregon Collyridian blog and the Mother God blog. I think that it is excellent.
Glenn
 

Why Mary? January 5, 2009
Filed under: By Sarah Morrigan, Collyridian the@logy — thelittleprincessofiris @ 11:22 pm
Tags: Mariology, Virgin Mary, Collyridianism, Philomarianites

Sometimes I get a question from people, like this:

Why do Collyridians worship Mary, she is [...]

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Who are the Collyridians?

I have recently discovered the blog site of the Collyridian Episcopate of Saint Bridget of Portland, Oregon. For those who do not know, the Collyridians were a Christian group which were defined as heretical by the orthodox Christian writer Epiphanius in the 4th Century CE. To cite the blog site:
 

Who are the Collyridians?
By Markus Mössner
Kollyridians or [...]

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An Adjustment in Direction

At the end of my last log entree  I stated that “from this point on  I will look not primarily to the modern pagan theologies of Wicca, Pagan Reconstructionism, New Age thought, etc. I will not because Marian devotionalism is primarily a Christian phenomena and not a Pagan one.  But instead I will look  to the traditional, orthodox and heterodox religious traditions [...]

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Situating Mary!

I think that I will initiate this discussion by  situating the place that Mary has in the religious or spiritual life of modern society. From there I will be able to more adequately explain my own particular assumptions about Mary and better describe the direction of the future discussion of this site.
Mary the Mother of Jesus, the Theotokos, [...]

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