Friday, October 13, 2023

Mauro Gagliardi on the "woman" in Revelation 12:1

  

The most traditional biblical foundation is Revelation 12:1, in which Saint John sees a glorious woman in Heaven, a symbol according to the greater part of the Tradition—both of the Church and of Mary. (Mauro Gagliardi, Truth is a Synthesis: Catholic Dogmatic Theology [Steubenville, Ohio: Emmaus Academic, 2020], 509)

 

Today, however, exegetes often see only an image of the heavenly Church in it; this is an interpretation that seems to us to be reductive of the wide symbolic scope of the text, which admits multiple levels (et-et) of reading. (Ibid., 502)