“Theologians through the centuries have been scandalized when they contemplate that the God who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent is incarnate in one person, with that person’s particularities and limitations.  This “scandal of particularity” is nowhere more evident than in God’s selection of Mary.  God did not elect to be born of some woman but of a particular woman; a particular woman gave of her humanity to the being of the God-human.  This peasant woman nurtured, raised, trained, even shaped the personality of the One who is God.”

 

                                                            -Cynthia L. Rigby “Mary and the Artistry of God”