THE CONTEXT OF MARIAN MEDIATION IN THE LIGHT OF LUMEN GENTIUM

Abstract

God is a Mystery. However, in Christ, the Incarnate Word, we have come to know God. The truth about the Incarnation, that Christ became human, taking up human flesh in the womb of Mary, is the mirror through which Christian faith is explained. This Biblically grounded truth forms the basis for our communion with God and our Christian faith. In light of this, this paper insists that the truth of the role of the Mother of God is only possible through the lens of the truth about the Son of God for whom she is the Mother and in relation to the Church that he founded for us as the universal means of salvation. It demonstrates how this relationship is the framework for her maternal mediation in the Church. Our study, done contextually and analytically, leads us to conclude that the best place to situate the theology of Mary is within the theology of Christ and his Church as indeed Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium does. Such an approach provides greater depth, context, and clarity to Marian mediation.