Geoff's Miscellany

Now, I don't expect you to read these on the first day of Christmas, but there are 12 whole days of Christmas (that's right Adam Sandler).

James Chastek, who is just a Thomist, reflects carefully on what it means to call Mary, the Mother of God:

Nestorius insisted on the seemingly innocent theological clarification of referring to Mary as mother of Christ and not as Mother of God since “Christ” was an awaited figure in history but to take this “Mother of God” talk literally would give us the sheer contradiction of generating the ingenerable. Nestorianism mirrored the earlier and more widespread Arian heresy, which also boiled down to the same seemingly innocent desire to clarify that, whatever this “son of god” talk amounted to, there wasn’t literally a generated God.