They discuss the literal and metaphorical importance of the conception of Christ, the idea of the Virgin Birth and the iconography of Mary.
The work has been described by Laura Saetveit Miles, a Yale University researcher of medieval manuscripts, as "one of the most admired fifteenth-century Middle English lyrics [which] offers, within a deceptively simple form, an extremely delicate and haunting presentation of Mary (the 'mayden / þat is makeles') and her conception of Christ ('here sone')".
The most influential work to popularize this conception of the mystical body of Christ was Henri de Lubac's Catholicisme, which appeared simultaneously with Congar's work, and later appeared in English as Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man (London: Sheed & Ward, 1950).
Derek Pearsall writes: A brain and a subtle ear has gone into the making of this poem...celebrating the mystery of Christ's conception.
Images of Christ's conception and nativity adorned innumerable prayer books and psalters as aids to meditation and prayer.
In Przedświt (1843; "The Moment Before Dawn") he developed a messianic interpretation of Polish history, and this conception of Poland as "the Christ among the nations" was also expounded in Psalmy przyszłości (1845; "Psalms of the Future").
This corresponds to the fundamental Christian idea that human beings both the living and the dead are bound together in an indissoluble communion; it presupposes the conception of the church as the body of Christ.
In addressing such questions, the Christian imagination of human life has been powerfully shaped by the imagination of Christ's life Christs conception, birth, suffering, death, and burial have been subjects of profound attention in Christian thought, just as they are moments of special interest and concern in each and every human life.
But I'm saying, you're not abandoning the faith--the author of our faith now wants to fulfill and perfect our faith with a Christ-centered conception of the divine.
Here Fell upholds a positive conception of sexual difference, according to which the female body is integral (rather than irrelevant) to the bringing of Christ's message.
He set the style throughout Spain and Latin America with such works as the statues of Christ on the cross, looking at the beholder; of the child Christ; and of the Immaculate Conception (all at the Sevilla Cathedral).
