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S4 EP:9 Mary, Women, and the Gender of God with Dr. Amy Peeler

Everyday Theology

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Is She Touching Him or He Touching Her?

The touching of Jesus by Mary would actually make Jesus himself impure, right? Because she had not come to her purity yet. There's a little bit and there's really good scholarship on is it she touching him or he touching her. But I think without question, the proximity as you have recently experienced of a newborn and his mother, there's just a complete anger intermingling of all kinds of bodily fluids,. which are exactly the things that bring about impurity. So the profound thing about the incarnation is that Jesus becomes human for us like any second grader who's raised in Sunday school can tell you that God becomes human.

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