THE FIRST IMMACULIST REFERENCES IN THEOLOGY FROM PATRISTIC TO THE MEDIEVAL CONTROVERSY

Abstract

The development of the so-called immaculist controversy has its origin in the apoc-ryphal Gospels, specifically in the Protoevangelium of Santiago. Although all the problems will have its climax in the middle ages, with reference to the writings of San Agustin, and having as main protagonists to Saint Thomas of Aquino and Duns Scoto, indeed along the traffic that goes from the first centuries of Christianity until the twelfth century, we will be finding mild references that serve as props to explain the conceptionist belief. In this article we intend to remove the main brush strokes immaculists, which served to strengthen that, during this time, a rather unknown, to ultimately end up becoming the dogma of the immaculate conception of the Virgin.