Editing Original sin (section)

==Immaculate Conception of Mary==
[[File:Murillo immaculate conception.jpg|thumb|''[[The Immaculate Conception of Los Venerables]]'' by [[Bartolomé Esteban Murillo]] (1617-1682).]]
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Although primarily associated with Catholicism, the [[Immaculate Conception]] (the doctrine that Mary was conceived without original sin) is confessed in some form in several major Christian denominations.

===Catholicism===
The Catholic doctrine of the [[Immaculate Conception]] of [[Mary, the mother of Jesus|Mary]] is that Mary was conceived free from original sin: "the most Blessed Virgin Mary was, from the first moment of her conception, by a singular grace and privilege of almighty God and by virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, Savior of the human race, preserved immune from all stain of original sin".<ref>[https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/__P1K.HTM ''Catechism of the Catholic Church'', para. 491.]</ref> The doctrine sees her as an exception to the general rule that human beings are not immune from the reality of original sin. As Mary was conceived without original sin, this statement opens to the fourth Marian dogma of the [[Assumption of Mary#catholic teaching|Assumption of Mary to Heaven]] in body and soul, according to the unchangeable dogmatic definition publicly proclaimed by Pope [[Pius XII]]. The Assumption to Heaven, with no corruption of the body, was made possible by Mary's being born without the original sin, while, according to [[Aquinas]], other persons need to wait for the [[universal resurrection|final resurrection of the flesh]] in order to get the sanctification of the whole human being.{{sfn|del Prado|1919|p=xv}}

===Eastern Orthodoxy===
The view of Eastern Christianity varies on whether Mary is free of all actual sin or [[concupiscence]]. Some Patristic sources imply that she was cleansed from sin at the [[Annunciation]], while the liturgical references are unanimous that she is all-holy from the time of her conception.{{sfn|Ware|1998|p=47}}{{sfn|Cleenewerck|2008|p=410}}

===Lutheranism===
Martin Luther agreed with the Catholic doctrine of the Immaculate Conception, as is evident in the following quote.

{{blockquote|[Mary] is full of grace, proclaimed to be entirely without sin. God's grace fills her with everything good and makes her devoid of all evil. God is with her, meaning that all she did or left undone is divine and the action of God in her. Moreover, God guarded and protected her from all that might be hurtful to her.{{sfn|Lehmann|1968|p=40}}}}