Fr. John P. Cush: What the Council of Ephesus Taught Us About Jesus and Mary

When we speak of the glories of Mary, we are also speaking of her Son!

By Father John P. Cush, EWTN News, 8/19/20

For a number of years, when I was teaching high school full-time, I was invited to come to the college-level seminary in my diocese and teach a class in Christology to the seminarians who were in pre-theology.

That term, “pre-theology,” always seems to confuse people when they encounter a seminarian who is in such a program. What does it mean to be a “pre-theologian”?  Well, it’s pretty simple — it’s a seminarian who has already completed a bachelor’s degree (or, in some cases, even a graduate degree) but has not studied enough classes in philosophy to enter into the study of theology just yet. They are not “collegians,” those seminarians who are studying for a bachelors’ degree (usually in philosophy), and not yet “theologians,” those seminarians formally studying theology in their last years of formation before priestly formation. While in pre-theology, these young men (and some not so young!) not only studied philosophy, but also took classes in Latin and Greek, as well as some classes in theology.  …

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