Originally published at The Catholic Thing
The expression, “Mother of God,” got my attention long before I became a Christian, let alone was received into the Roman fold. I found it a rather thrilling assertion, whether or not “true.” The idea that God could have a Mother, fritzed my underdeveloped neurons; but it was better than that. For there is a second, Trinitarian punch coming, when the corollary follows, that “Christ is God.”
