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1200 - 1280 AD
Note. St. Albert the Great was one of the early
scholastics who helped to build up the systematic approach to theology that
would revolutionise theology in the Middle Ages. St. Thomas Aquinas was one of
his disciples. St. Albert has been declared a Doctor of the Church.
St. Albert the Great considered Mary a priest.
- Although Mary did not receive the sacrament of Holy Orders,
she possessed the dignity and power contained in Holy
Orders equivalently and to an eminent degree.
St. Albert explains his
reasons at length and states emphatically that there was no grace, power or
dignity possessed by any ecclesiastical minister, including the Pope, that Mary
did not possess to the highest degree.
- Mary can rightly be called an Apostle,
Prophetess, Evangelist and Pastor.
- Mary acted as a sacrificial priest.
Like his contemporaries, St. Albert the Great enumerates the commonly
accepted reasons against the ordination of women. But amazingly, and contrary
to what he does regarding other questions, he does not give his own judgement
on those reasons! See what St. Albert says about the
ordination of women.
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