Questions of Catholic Mariology during the Reformatio
This article discusses the reform movement, as a phenomenon that has had a significant impact on the development of Catholic mariology. The Reformation was a reaction to a number of shortcomings in the religious life of the Roman Catholic Church. In the Christian milieu, discussions arose about the incomprehensible character of certain liturgical rites. The reformers believed that Roman Catholic Church, creating constantly new dogmas and trying to streamline church life, thereby more and more departed from the «true Scripture». In the teachings of the reformers, in accordance with their position on the veneration of saints, the possibility of the intercession of the Virgin Mary was also denied. In practice, it was forbidden to call on the help of the Virgin, which, in their opinion, leveled the uniqueness of the feat of Jesus Christ. The doctrines of the Immaculate Conception and of the bodily ascension of the Mother of God met strong opposition from Protestant theologians. The author concludes that, the events of the Reformation significantly contributed to the formation of the teachings of the Roman Catholic Church on issues of mariology. The Reformation, on the one hand, contributed to the actualization and understanding by Catholics of the issues of soteriology, the meaning of Scripture, and on the other, it was the Reformation that led the Roman Catholic Church to hastily resolve the issue of dogmatizing the teaching of the Immaculate Conception and bodily ascension of the Mother of God.