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By Dave Armstrong, EWTN News, October 11, 2023
Dave Armstrong Dave Armstrong is a full-time Catholic author and apologist, who has been actively proclaiming and defending Christianity since 1981. He was received into the Catholic Church in 1991.
‘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]. Excesses such as this lent credibility to the Protestant charge that Catholics ‘divinized’ Mary in an idolatrous way.”
Svendsen was probably referring to a piece by Duns Scotus (1266-1308) entitled, On the Fittingness of the Immaculate Conception. But Duns Scotus in his first paragraph of this treatise, cited St. Anselm (c. 1033-1109): “It was fitting that the Virgin should be resplendent with a purity greater than which none under God can be conceived.” In any event, it was actually the writers of the New Testament who thought in these terms …..
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