By Dave Armstrong, EWTN News - ‘It was fitting,’ said St. Anselm, ‘that the Virgin should be resplendent with a purity greater than which none under God can be conceived.’
Protestant anti-Catholic polemicist Eric Svendsen, who fancies himself an expert on Catholic Mariology, wrote in his doctoral dissertation from 2000: Post-Tridentine Catholic theology “went so far as to develop arguments from ‘fittingness,’ ... This ‘fittingness’ argument is usually traced to Duns Scotus [c. 1265-1308]. ...