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    The perpetual virginity of Mary is a Christian doctrine that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was a virgin "before, during and after" the birth of Christ. In...
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    The Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary (Latin: De perpetua virginitate beatae Mariae adversus Helvidium) is an apologetic work of Saint Jerome (c. AD...
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    uphold the perpetual virginity of Mary reject the idea of biological brethren and maintain that the brothers and sisters were either cousins of Jesus (option...
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  • the divine motherhood of Mary while adhering to pious opinions of the Immaculate Conception and the perpetual virginity of Mary, along with the caveat...
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    that Mary remained a virgin throughout her life, with the Quran's mention of Mary's purification “from the touch of men” implying perpetual virginity in...
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    dogmas of Mother of God, Immaculate Conception, perpetual virginity, and Assumption form the basis of Mariology. However, a number of other Catholic doctrines...
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    of the couple to Bethlehem, the birth of Jesus, and events immediately following. It is the earliest surviving assertion of the perpetual virginity of...
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    because of these biblical problems, the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary has not been supported as unanimously as has the doctrine of the virginal...
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  • author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary. Helvidius maintained that the biblical mention of "sisters"...
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    Catholic Church. The Perpetual Virginity of Mary asserts Mary's real and perpetual virginity even in the act of giving birth to the Son of God made Man. The...
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  • to introduce the perpetual virginity of Mary); and gospel harmonies such as the Diatessaron. Gospel is the Old English translation of the Hellenistic Greek...
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  • Virgin (title) The Greek translation of Hebrew Almah Perpetual virginity of Mary Parthenos (genus), a genus of butterfly O Virgin Pure Isaiah 7:14 This...
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    "CHURCH FATHERS: The Perpetual Virginity of Mary (Jerome)". www.newadvent.org. Papias of Hierapolis. Exposition of the Sayings of the Lord. Fragment X...
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    "Mater Dei" or Mother of God. From this derives the title "Blessed Mother". Virgin Mary: The doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary developed early in...
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    "brothers and sisters" of Jesus as referring specifically to children born of Mary. The doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary means among other things...
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    concept of the Perpetual Virginity of Mary, and the Infancy Gospel of Thomas (not to be confused with the unrelated Gospel of Thomas), both of which cover...
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  • disagreements about the perpetual virginity of Mary, many Lutherans avoid using the traditional title of "Blessed Virgin Mary" to preface the feasts or...
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    the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary. It is one of the texts within the New Testament apocrypha concerned with the period of Jesus' life before...
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    Jesus" are not biological children of Mary, because of the dogma of the perpetual virginity of Mary, by virtue of which it rejects the idea that Simon...
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    (Christianity) Order of the Most Holy Annunciation Roman Catholic Marian art Perpetual Virginity of Mary For full text of the apocryphal Gospel of James, see for...
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    Articles, a confession of faith of the Lutheran churches, affirm the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary. Lutherans of Evangelical Catholic churchmanship...
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  • those of Helvetian origin Helvidius, sometimes written Helvetius, author of a work written prior to 383 against the belief in the perpetual virginity of Mary...
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    a woman who has been consecrated by the church to a life of perpetual virginity as a bride of Christ. Consecrated virgins are consecrated by the diocesan...
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  • Bonosus was a Bishop of Sardica in the latter part of the fourth century, who taught against the doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary. His followers...
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    Perpetual Virginity of Blessed Mary the following: Do you intend the comparatively unknown James the Less, who is called in Scripture the son of Mary...
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    biological children of Mary, but step-brothers or cousins, which is part of the doctrine of perpetual virginity of Mary. The Epistle of Jude has been attributed...
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  • Anglicanism Perpetual virginity of Mary, one of the four Marian dogmas in Catholicism Perpetual bond, a bond that pays coupons forever Perpetual plc, a British...
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    Virgin (title) (category Types of saints)
    the perpetual virginity of Mary was widely upheld as a dogma by the Church Fathers from the 4th century. In the hagiography of Christian martyrs of the...
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    condemned a number of issues as errors, including the denial of the virginity of Mary. This dogma was proclaimed at the Council of Ephesus in 431 and...
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    Mary was the mother of Jesus. Latter Day Saints affirm the virgin birth of Jesus but reject the Catholic doctrine of the perpetual virginity of Mary....
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