"(About the Marian title of Co-Redemptrix) The analogy by similarity instinctively (i.e., without critical scrutiny) leads to the emergence of “salvific parallelism.” The document, with surgical precision, dismantles the title not because Mary does not cooperate, but because the term constructs a misleading image. The analogy by similarity works as follows: a. it isolates a point of contact (both Christ and Mary suffered for our salvation. Both were associated with the redemptive event); b. it extends the similarity (if Christ is the Redeemer, and Mary is similar to Him in this work, then she can be called “Co-Redemptrix”); c. it minimizes the dissimilarity (in this process, the abysmal difference—Christ acts as God and Man, the primary and autonomous source of grace; Mary acts as a creature, redeemed and transformed, a derivative and subordinate channel —is flattened. The dissimilarity becomes an appendix, a footnote)."
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