We Protestants enjoy asserting the ordinariness of Mary (the mother of Jesus), her humanity, the sinfulness we assume to be her natural portion. Riding on the (diminishing but powerful) tide of Reformation politics, we mostly avoid meditating on the person of Mary as distinct from other people, instead preferring to meditate upon her as similar [...]
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