If There Is An Antichrist, Is There An Antimary?
Furthermore, as someone who is interested in the place of sacred art in the liturgy, I would love to see a more widespread practice of engagement with art during the liturgical celebration, in a way that seems more common in the Eastern Church. I am always struck in Byzantine liturgies how all turn and face the icon of the Mother of God whenever her name is invoked. If this were to become more widespread, it would probably improve both our prayer and our art!
Carrie Gress writes:
While researching my latest book, The Marian Option: God’s Solution to a Civilization in Crisis (Tan Books, May 2017), I was struck by a new theological concept. I kept running across the notion that Mary is the New Eve—an idea that goes back to the early Church Fathers. Mary as the New Eve is the female complement to Christ, the New Adam. In Scripture, St. John speaks of an antichrist as a man, but also as a movement that is present throughout history (1 John 4:3, 2 John 1:7). This got me thinking: if there is an antichrist, perhaps there is a female complement, an antimary?What, then, would an antimary movement look like, exactly? Well, these women would not value children. They would be bawdy, vulgar, and angry. They would rage against the idea of anything resembling humble obedience or self-sacrifice for others. They would be petulant, shallow, catty, and overly sensuous. They would also be self-absorbed, manipulative, gossipy, anxious, and ambitious. In short, it would be everything that Mary is not.
So many sacred images of Mary depict her leading us to her Son. Perhaps the image in which the connection is most profound is the Mother of God of the Sign, in which to see her is to see the image of the Son. The image below is of a relief carving by Jonathan Pageau.
Dr Carrie Gress is on the faculty of www.Pontifex.University. Her online introductory philosophy course, a History of the Transcendentals will be offered early in the summer.
Source: http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/02/if-there-is-antichrist-is-there-antimary.html
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I thought she was named Lamashtu or Lilith.
Psalm 97:7
Confounded be all they that serve graven images, that boast themselves of idols: worship him, all ye gods. Psalm 106:36
And they served their idols: which were a snare unto them. 2 Kings 17:12
For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, Ye shall not do this thing. Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
Mother Mary worship is pagan. She is depicted as the Whore of Heaven ! http://www.albatrus.org/english/religions/pagan/pagan_origin_mary_worship.htm THE NAME (EASTER) can be traced back to the name “Astarte,” the Syrian sun goddess, known as the “queen of heaven” http://www.remnantofgod.org/easter.htm