John Bunyan
Puritan Board Freshman
According to Wikipedia:
Wycliffe "It seems to me impossible that we should obtain the reward of Heaven without the help of Mary. There is no sex or age, no rank or position, of anyone in the whole human race, which has no need to call for the help of the Holy Virgin."
Luther "The virgin body was pregnant, but she remained pure; Here comes the saviour of the gentiles; Divine grace from heaven came over the virgin and others", and ""Furthermore, how will you endure [the Romanists'] terrible idolatries? It was not enough that they venerated the saints and praised God in them, but they actually made them into gods. They put that noble child, the mother Mary, right into the place of Christ. They fashioned Christ into a judge and thus devised a tyrant for anguished consciences, so that all comfort and confidence was transferred from Christ to Mary, and then everyone turned from Christ to his particular saint. Can anyone deny this? Is it not true?"".
Seeing that some reformers held differing opinions on Mary (some say that Luther as a defender of the Immaculate Conception, for example, and lutherans seem to be way in that Mary veneration business), I'd like to ask: What are the major protestant mariological views and? What is the major difference between protestant views and catholic ones (since some protestants even believe in the catholic dogma of "immaculate conception")? Why is it so unusual to find protestant seminaries with any class named "Mariology", while every single Catholic one has it?
Other question: why do catholics call Mary by so many different names both in their preaching and praying? Why so many "Our Lady of here-and-there"? Why not just "Our Lady" or "Blessed Virgin"? Here in my country people even use two names one after the other (like "Pray that Our Lady of Aparecida might help us understand God's Word, and that Our Lady of Fatima will help us against our sins")? Is there any theological significance or is it the case that catholics simply like to use lots of synonimous words?
Wycliffe "It seems to me impossible that we should obtain the reward of Heaven without the help of Mary. There is no sex or age, no rank or position, of anyone in the whole human race, which has no need to call for the help of the Holy Virgin."
Luther "The virgin body was pregnant, but she remained pure; Here comes the saviour of the gentiles; Divine grace from heaven came over the virgin and others", and ""Furthermore, how will you endure [the Romanists'] terrible idolatries? It was not enough that they venerated the saints and praised God in them, but they actually made them into gods. They put that noble child, the mother Mary, right into the place of Christ. They fashioned Christ into a judge and thus devised a tyrant for anguished consciences, so that all comfort and confidence was transferred from Christ to Mary, and then everyone turned from Christ to his particular saint. Can anyone deny this? Is it not true?"".
Seeing that some reformers held differing opinions on Mary (some say that Luther as a defender of the Immaculate Conception, for example, and lutherans seem to be way in that Mary veneration business), I'd like to ask: What are the major protestant mariological views and? What is the major difference between protestant views and catholic ones (since some protestants even believe in the catholic dogma of "immaculate conception")? Why is it so unusual to find protestant seminaries with any class named "Mariology", while every single Catholic one has it?
Other question: why do catholics call Mary by so many different names both in their preaching and praying? Why so many "Our Lady of here-and-there"? Why not just "Our Lady" or "Blessed Virgin"? Here in my country people even use two names one after the other (like "Pray that Our Lady of Aparecida might help us understand God's Word, and that Our Lady of Fatima will help us against our sins")? Is there any theological significance or is it the case that catholics simply like to use lots of synonimous words?