Did the Blessed Virgin Mary Die or Not? Opinions of the Early Church as Well as the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches in the 20th Century

Authors

Presenter(s)

Vincent Alexander LoBiondo

Comments

Presentation: 3:40-4:00, Kennedy Union 312

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Description

Pope Pius XII's 1950 definition of the dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary did not say whether or not Mary died. Therefore, Catholics are still free to believe either possibility. The Immortalists say that Mary did not die, while the Mortalists hold that Mary did die. Most of the Church Fathers, Apocrypha, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox theologians take the Mortalist position for various reasons. The Mortalists of the Eastern Orthodox Church say that Mary was subject to death from Original Sin. Meanwhile, a minority of Roman Catholic theologians argue from the Catholic dogma of Mary's Immaculate Conception, i.e. that Mary did not have Original Sin, to say that Mary would not have had to die since that was a punishment for the Original Sin that she did not have. The two Churches also disagree on how the body is united to the soul. Despite these theological differences, theological similarities exist.

Publication Date

4-17-2024

Project Designation

Graduate Research

Primary Advisor

Sebastien Abalodo, Gloria Falcao Dodd, Ethan D. Smith

Primary Advisor's Department

International Marian Research Institute

Keywords

Stander Symposium, College of Arts and Sciences

Institutional Learning Goals

Faith; Traditions; Scholarship

Recommended Citation

"Did the Blessed Virgin Mary Die or Not? Opinions of the Early Church as Well as the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches in the 20th Century" (2024). Stander Symposium Projects. 3522.
https://ecommons.udayton.edu/stander_posters/3522