The recent comments of German theologian Annette Jantzen in an interview with Kirche und Leben continue a growing trend in modern theology as found in the Synodal Church and its adjacent structures: a relentless war on the Mother of God.>Jantzen, who in the good old days would have been burnt as a witch, ticks all the boxes that constitute the synodal religion’s rebellion against God’s Church. She recasts ancient dogmas as symbolic narratives, treats Marian devotion with blasphemous suspicion, and softens the supernatural character of the Gospel into metaphor.>Jantzen argues that Marian devotion becomes dangerous when Mary is presented as “virginal, sinless, and mother,” claiming such beliefs create “unrealistic standards” for women. This “theologian,” and might I add enemy of true womanhood, seemingly does not know, or denies, the fact that these qualities are not later theological inventions imposed upon Christianity, but part of the deposit of faith of the religion she claims to represent.

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