That Mary was the mother of God, i.e., literally gave birth to God, appeared early in Christian history.
In the 2nd century Ignatius declared “our God, Jesus the Christ was conceived in the womb by Mary…”
In the 3rd century Malchion, a pastor in modern-day Turkey, wrote that God "was in the womb..."
The French bishop Hilary said that Luke 1:35 taught how “the One Only-begotten God…entered the Virgin's womb.”
Yet, other so-called "Church Fathers" criticized them for teaching what they deemed heretical views.
Irenaeus described some who believed “Christ passed through Mary just as water flows through a tube.” And others taught that the Son “underwent a transformation and in the shape of a serpent entered into a womb…”
More recently, the noted scholar and Catholic priest Raymond Brown said “the assumption that Matthew knew 4th century theology about the Mother of God is more than dubious.” And the late noted Protestant John Hick called Chalcedonian Christology “a remote ancestor of modern unbelief.” Because the phrase Mother of God is on its face “blasphemous.”
In the 2nd century Ignatius declared “our God, Jesus the Christ was conceived in the womb by Mary…”
In the 3rd century Malchion, a pastor in modern-day Turkey, wrote that God "was in the womb..."
The French bishop Hilary said that Luke 1:35 taught how “the One Only-begotten God…entered the Virgin's womb.”
Yet, other so-called "Church Fathers" criticized them for teaching what they deemed heretical views.
Irenaeus described some who believed “Christ passed through Mary just as water flows through a tube.” And others taught that the Son “underwent a transformation and in the shape of a serpent entered into a womb…”
More recently, the noted scholar and Catholic priest Raymond Brown said “the assumption that Matthew knew 4th century theology about the Mother of God is more than dubious.” And the late noted Protestant John Hick called Chalcedonian Christology “a remote ancestor of modern unbelief.” Because the phrase Mother of God is on its face “blasphemous.”