Artiklen nævner ikke præcist hvilken Pave som har udtalt dette. Jeg læser
det generelt, forstået sådan at der er tale om en officiel Maria teologi
der er indarbejdet i Vatikanets selvforståelse. Altså - flere Paver kan
have udtalt sig om dette.
Baggrunden for denne katolske lære er :
Queen of Heaven
The doctrine that the Virgin Mary has been crowned Queen of Heaven goes
back to the early patristic writers of the Church such as St. Gregory
Nazianzen "the Mother of the King of the universe," and the "Virgin Mother
who brought forth the King of the whole world,"[78] Prudentius, the Mother
marvels "that she has brought forth God as man, and even as Supreme
King."[79] and, St. Ephrem, "Let Heaven sustain me in its embrace, because
I am honored above it. For heaven was not Thy mother, but Thou hast made it
Thy throne. How much more honorable and venerable than the throne of a king
is her mother."[80]
NOTE: *The Catholic Church often sees Mary as queen in heaven, bearing a
crown of twelve stars in Revelation[81]*
Many Popes have given tribute to it. Mary is the Queen of Heaven and Earth,
(Pius IX), Queen and Ruler of the Universe (Leo XIII) and Queen of the
World (Pius XII)[82] The theological and logical foundation of these titles
rests in the dogma of Mary as the Mother of God. As mother of God, she
participates in his salvation plan. The Catholic faith teaches that Mary,
the Virgin Mother of God, reigns with a mother's solicitude over the entire
world, just as she is crowned in heavenly blessedness with the glory of a
Queen[83]:
Certainly, in the full and strict meaning of the term, only Jesus Christ,
the God-Man, is King; but Mary, too, as Mother of the divine Christ, as His
associate in the redemption, in his struggle with His enemies and His final
victory over them, has a share, though in a limited and analogous way, in
His royal dignity. For from her union with Christ she attains a radiant
eminence transcending that of any other creature; from her union with
Christ she receives the royal right to dispose of the treasures of the
Divine Redeemer's Kingdom; from her union with Christ finally is derived
the inexhaustible efficacy of her maternal intercession before the Son and
His Father.[83]
Kilde :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Mariology
At det ifølge katolsk opfattelse er Maria som er beskrevet i ÅB 12 fremgår
tydeligt her :
Opslag : The Blessed Virgin Mary
Afsnit : Apocalypse 12:1-6
In the Apocalypse (12:1-16) occurs a passage singularly applicable to Our
Blessed Mother.
The applicability of this passage to Mary is based on the following
considerations:
•At least part of the verses refer to the mother whose son is to rule all
the nations with a rod of iron; according to Psalm 2:9, this is the Son of
God, Jesus Christ, Whose mother is Mary.
•It was Mary's son that "was taken up to God, and to his throne" at the
time of His Ascension into heaven.
•The dragon, or the devil of the earthly paradise (cf. Apocalypse 12:9;
20:2), endeavoured to devour Mary's Son from the first moments of His
birth, by stirring up the jealousy of Herod and, later on, the enmities of
the Jews.
•Owing to her unspeakable privileges, Mary may well be described as
"clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and on her head a crown
of twelve stars".
•It is true that commentators generally understand the whole passage as
applying literally to the Church, and that part of the verses is better
suited to the Church than to Mary. But it must be kept in mind that Mary is
both a figure of the Church, and its most prominent member. What is said of
the Church, is in its own way true of Mary. Hence the passage of the
Apocalypse (12:5-6) does not refer to Mary merely by way of accommodation
[108], but applies to her in a truly literal sense which appears to be
partly limited to her, and partly extended to the whole Church. Mary's
relation to the Church is well summed up in the expression "collum corporis
mystici" applied to Our Lady by St. Bernardin of Siena. [109]
Kilde :
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/15464b.htm
Ifølge katolsk lære blev Maria sandsynligvis og helt undtagelsvist,
bortrykket og ophøjet i himmelen.
History
Although the Assumption (Latin: assūmptiō, "taken up") was only relatively
recently defined as infallible dogma by the Catholic Church, and in spite
of a statement by Saint Epiphanius of Salamis in AD 377 that no one knew
whether Mary had died or not,[6] apocryphal accounts of the assumption of
Mary into heaven have circulated since at least the 4th century. The
Catholic Church itself interprets chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation as
referring to it.[7
The taking of Mary into Heaven became an established teaching across the
Eastern, Western, Coptic and Oriental churches from at least the late 7th
Century, the festival date settling at August 15. Theological debate about
the Assumption continued, following the Reformation, climaxing in 1950 when
Pope Pius XII defined it as dogma for the Catholic Church.[11] The Catholic
Church has not claimed that this doctrine is founded on the apocryphal
accounts as having any authority, nor that the church bases its teaching
about the Assumption on them, but rather on the historic teaching of the
Church down the centuries, the scholastic arguments in favor of it, and its
interpretations of biblical sources. However, Protestant theologians reject
such arguments as semantics; that apocryphal accounts did in fact become
the basis for such church teachings, which were then set forth as dogma.
They cite the fact that the idea did not gain acceptance in the church
until the sixth century, after Gregory of Tours accepted the apocryphal
work "Transitus Beatae Mariae".[12] Catholic theologian Ludwig Ott stated,
"The idea of the bodily assumption of Mary is first expressed in certain
transitus-narratives of the fifth and sixth centuries.... The first Church
author to speak of the bodily assumption of Mary, in association with an
apocryphal transitus B.M.V., is St. Gregory of Tours."[13] The Catholic
writer Eamon Duffy goes further, conceding that "there is, clearly, no
historical evidence whatever for it.".[14] However, the Catholic Church has
never asserted nor denied that its teaching is based on the apocryphal
accounts. The Church documents are silent on this matter and instead rely
upon other sources and arguments as the basis for the doctrine.
Kilde :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary
Se også : Assumption of Mary
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02006b.htm
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