The mystery of pregnancy and the heroism of Lindbergh combined to give a distinction bordering on thedivine to my very own mother, for whom nothing less than a global annunciation had accompanied the incarnation of her first child.
The faith's official theology, after wrestling with the different senses in which Christ was human and divine, had crystallised with the pronouncement in the early fifth century that Mary was Theotokos, theMother of God: the person whose body was the miraculous locus of a unique cosmic event, the coming together of the Creator and the created, physical world.