AW: [SEELANGS] AW: [SEELANGS] Coredemptrix

[Melissa Smith]

I've missed the actual context that Dan was looking for a translation 
for this term, but I assumed it was a non-believer's attempt to insert 
contemporary sexual equality into religious terminology that hasn't 
quite kept up with the times! It never struck me as something that 
might actually be possible in the context of Orthodox religions.

Melissa Smith

On 9/7/10 4:26 AM, FIEGUTH Rolf wrote:
> Dear Olga,
> 
> you are quite right in stating that Mary cannot be a deity for 
Christian believers, even for Her most ardent and deepest venerators. 
But it is precisely for this very reason that "coredemptrix" is an 
inacceptable concept and term outside the Roman Catholic Church, since 
it puts Mary on the same level as Jesus Christ. 
> Best wishes to you and Daniel,
> 
> Rolf Fieguth
> ________________________________________
> Von: SEELANGS: Slavic & East European Languages and Literatures list 
[SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu] im Auftrag von Olga Meerson 
[meersono at GEORGETOWN.EDU]
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 7. September 2010 04:30
> An: SEELANGS at bama.ua.edu
> Betreff: Re: [SEELANGS] AW: [SEELANGS] Coredemptrix
> 
> Mary is NOT a deity, at least not for Orthodox or roman Catholic 
believers. Daniel, if you write such a thing, it is like claiming that 
Russians' reverence for Pushkin proves they [ we believe he is a god. A 
nice metaphor but not true literally. Not all veneration is deifying. 
Certainly not the veneration of the Mother of God in the eyes of those 
who venerate Her. Isn't it logical that they should be consulted on 
what they believe? If you write that She is "an important deity" for 
the Orthodox, be prepared for the whole publication you are 
contributing to to be compromised by such a statement. perhaps there is 
other compromising evidence in your book but I hope not so. It is 
amazing how the same people who uphold fairly high standards for their 
own fields of scholarship say all kinds of nonsense about religion and 
theology! There are things to know about theological matters, and if 
you don't know them, it is prudent not to talk about them--if only to 
uphold your own intellec!
>  tu!
> al reputation.
> Respectfully,
> o.m.
> 
> 
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Melissa T. Smith, Professor
Department of Foreign Languages and 
Literatures  
Youngstown State University
Youngstown, OH 44555
Tel: (330)941-3462

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