Mary, Protestants, and Quantum Physics

Here is a good little article on Evangelicals and the Mother of God. I particularly liked this quote from then-Cardinal Ratzinger:

The Christological affirmation of God’s Incarnation in Christ becomes necessarily a Marian affirmation, as de facto it was from the beginning. Conversely: only when it touches Mary and becomes Mariology is Christology itself as radical as the faith of the Church requires. The appearance of a truly Marian awareness serves as the touchstone indicating whether or not the Christological substance is fully present. Nestorianism involves the fabrication of a Christology from which the nativity and the mother are removed, a Christology without Mariological consequences. Precisely this operation, which surgically removes God so far from man that nativity and maternity-all of corporeality-remain in a different sphere, indicated unambiguously to the Christian consciousness that the discussion no longer concerned incarnation (becoming flesh), that the ?center of Christ’s mystery was endangered, if not already destroyed. Thus in Mariology Christology was defended.

The article also contains what, I think, is probably a protestant's major difficulty with Mariology (besides inculcated prejudices against things that are so explicitly Catholic):

Good Catholics know, of course, that Mary is not the object of worship or the kind of adoration given only to God (latria), but rather of veneration (doulia), albeit of a special kind (hyperdoulia). But this distinction often seems to get lost at the local level.

I leave it for the others to discuss, but a proper veneration of Mary alongside a proper adoration and worship of Jesus is often difficult for the young protestant armed only with a Bible (as well as the young Catholic flanked with both Bible and Cathechism) to distinguish. This criticism can not hold up to even a small amount of study or genuine curiousity, but I think that it is an immediate problem on the local level, as the author puts it.

The reason I leave it to the others to discuss anything more about this is because they are a lot smarter than me. I found this clip (with Max playing the part of Ransom and Quantum Physics playing the part of Theology) that sums up the Silent Planet quite well: