Theodotus of Ancyra (bishop)

Theodotus of Ancyra (in Greek: Θεόδοτος) was a fifth-century bishop of Ancyra (modern Ankara). He was a theologian who attended the Council of Ephesus in 431, during the reign of Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II. Quotes Radiant and paradoxical is the subject matter of the present festival [Christmas]: radiant, because it has brought salvation to all men; paradoxical, because it ran counter to nature's law. For nature no longer acknowledges a virgin after childbirth, but grace] made her parent and kept her virgin; grace made her a mother and did not violate her virginity...O earth unsown that flowered forth fruit that saves! O Virgin who surpasses Eden's garden if delights!...The Virgin is made more glorious than paradise. For paradise was cultivated by God; but Mary cultivated God Himslef according to the flesh, willing as He did to be united to human's nature. Thedotus of Ancyra, On the Nativity of Our Savior, 2 (Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum - ACO, 1, 1, 2, 80-81; ed. Schwartz; Berlin and Leipzig, 1914 ff.). As reported in in Father Paul Palmer, SJ, Mary in the Documents of the Church, pp. 51-52 (of 129), Lowe and Brydone (printers) Ltd, London L.W. 10, for Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 28 Ashley Place, London, S.W.I. (with nihil obstat by E.A Cerny, S.S, D.D., and imprimatur by Franciscus P. Keough, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore, given on 23 November 1951). OCLC 3286267. Ch. Mary. God's Eden (January 6, 432; second homily on the Lord's Nativity, delivered at the Council of Ephesus). In place of the virgin Eve, mediatrix of death, a virgin has been filled with God's grace to be the minister of life; a virgin has been fashioned possessing the nature of a woman, but without part in her fault (malice); a virgin, innocent, without blemish, all-immaculate, inviolate, spotless, holy in soul and body, who has blossomed as a lily from among thorns, unlearned in the evil ways of Eve...When yet unborn she was consecrated to God, and when born was offered to God as a sign of gratitude...Clothed with a divine grace as with a garment, her soul filled with a wisdom divine, in heart wedded to God, she received God in her womb, [she who is] in fact the Mother of God... Thedotus of Ancyra, Homily 6, On Holy Mary, Mother of God, and on the Holy Nativity of Christ (PG, 77, 1427; ed. Migne; Paris, 1844 ff.). As reported in in Father Paul Palmer, SJ, Mary in the Documents of the Church, p. 52 (of 129), Lowe and Brydone (printers) Ltd, London L.W. 10, for Burns Oates and Washbourne Ltd, 28 Ashley Place, London, S.W.I. (with nihil obstat by E.A Cerny, S.S, D.D., and imprimatur by Franciscus P. Keough, D.D., Archbishop of Baltimore, given on 23 November 1951). OCLC 3286267. Ch. Mary. God's Eden (January 6, 432; second homily on the Lord's Nativity, delivered at the Council of Ephesus). According to Paul Palmer, the "Greek text of this celebrated passage, which is not in Migne, has been seen in a tenth century manuscript by M. Jugie and is reproduced in part in his article "Immaculate Conception" (Dictionaire de théologie catholique - DTC, ed. Vacant-Mangenot; Paris, 1903-; 7, 906 ff.)..." External links Category:5th century births Category:5th century deaths Category:Bishops Category:Theologians from Turkey