| From: | <bjm10@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, June 29, 2000, 19:03 |
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Padraic Brown wrote:> God mother has connotations in English that "Mother of God" > doesn't: i.e., baptismal sponsor. Might make for a better > translation of Bogoroditsa / Theotokos."Godmother" is most certainly NOT an appropriate translation for Theotokos. She is not a mere "sponsor". In Orthodox Mariology she truly is the mother of Jesus, who is the Divine Logos made man.