Sasse on the Mistaken Assumption
Pr. Paul McCain's Cyberbrethren features a 54 year-old article by Hermann Sasse, confessor during the Nazi era in Germany and one of the greatest Lutherans of the Twentieth Century, on the Roman church's then-recent definition of the imaginary assumption of the Blessed Virgin bodily into heaven, and the background of Rome's Marian excesses in general.
Rightly called Theotokos ("the God-bearer") and "the mother of God" (since the human Baby to Whom she gave birth is, in fact, God as well as human), to a sad and shocking extent she replaced her Son in much of Catholicism's piety early on- even to the point of being fairly recently given the blasphemous title "co-redemptrix!"
How could this be? If there is anyone who can be depended upon for a cogent and historically insightful answer, it's Dr. Sasse!
Rightly called Theotokos ("the God-bearer") and "the mother of God" (since the human Baby to Whom she gave birth is, in fact, God as well as human), to a sad and shocking extent she replaced her Son in much of Catholicism's piety early on- even to the point of being fairly recently given the blasphemous title "co-redemptrix!"
How could this be? If there is anyone who can be depended upon for a cogent and historically insightful answer, it's Dr. Sasse!
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