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Mary and Other Women Saints in the Letters o f Erasmus1

Mary and Other Women Saints in the Letters o f Erasmus1 [105] Mary and Other Women Saints in the Letters o f Erasmus1 by Anne M. O'Donnell, S.N.D. In my study of contemporary women in the letters of Erasmus, I examined references to women largely in terms of social class: royal, upper-bourgeois, and working-class women. z Among women in the eras preceding the Renais- sance, Erasmus mentions some classical heroines, but most often female saints. I will examine these in chronological order: biblical women-espe- cially Mary, women of late antiquity, and legendary or historical women of the Middle Ages.3 Erasmus derives his Mariology, not from speculative the- ology or vernacular piety, but from biblical humanism and the Latin liturgy. A consistent feature of Erasmus' references to all these holy women is his subordination of their efficacy to Christ's. I MARY: DIVINE MATERNITY Understandably in the letters of Erasmus there are more references to Mary than to any other holy woman.4 Theologians hold that the principle of Mary's extraordinary graces is the divine motherhood. Her own conception without original sin, her conception of Jesus without a human father, her spiritual motherhood, and her bodily assumption into heaven, all stem from 106 her role as mother of the incarnate Word. Erasmus http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook Brill

Mary and Other Women Saints in the Letters o f Erasmus1

O'Donnell, Anne M.
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook , Volume 11 (1): 105 – Jan 1, 1991
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© 1991 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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[105] Mary and Other Women Saints in the Letters o f Erasmus1 by Anne M. O'Donnell, S.N.D. In my study of contemporary women in the letters of Erasmus, I examined references to women largely in terms of social class: royal, upper-bourgeois, and working-class women. z Among women in the eras preceding the Renais- sance, Erasmus mentions some classical heroines, but most often female saints. I will examine these in chronological order: biblical women-espe- cially Mary, women of late antiquity, and legendary or historical women of the Middle Ages.3 Erasmus derives his Mariology, not from speculative the- ology or vernacular piety, but from biblical humanism and the Latin liturgy. A consistent feature of Erasmus' references to all these holy women is his subordination of their efficacy to Christ's. I MARY: DIVINE MATERNITY Understandably in the letters of Erasmus there are more references to Mary than to any other holy woman.4 Theologians hold that the principle of Mary's extraordinary graces is the divine motherhood. Her own conception without original sin, her conception of Jesus without a human father, her spiritual motherhood, and her bodily assumption into heaven, all stem from 106 her role as mother of the incarnate Word. Erasmus

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Published: Jan 1, 1991

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