Editor's Note: This essay is part of a series on Natality, a conversation about child-bearing, family life, birth rates, and the presence or absence...
Editor's Note: This essay is part of a series on Natality, a conversation about child-bearing, family life, birth rates, and the presence or absence...
We're continuing our Natality series. Nestorius, David Ney writes, was the heresiarch of anti-natalism. He refused to accept a little child as his God. Christ himself was born as a consequence of God’s decision to make Mary fruitful and to make many other ancestors fruitful, including Eve, whom he married to Adam. It is a risk for men and women to be so open.