Protestant Reformers
The great protestant reformers affirmed their belief
in Mary's
perpetual virginity:
German reformer Martin Luther's
(1483-1546) writings often
address the subject of Mary: On the Divine
Motherhood of Mary,
he wrote In this work whereby she was made the
Mother of God,
so many and such great good things were given her
that no one
can grasp them. ... Not only was Mary the mother of
him who is
born [in Bethlehem], but of him who, before the
world, was
eternally born of the Father, from a Mother in time
and at the
same time man and God.
(Weimer's The
Works of Luther, English
translation by Pelikan,
Concordia, St. Louis, v. 7, p. 572.)
