Christian "recapitulation" and the "double typology of salvation"

 
There is a "double typology of salvation" in the work of some Chrsitian thinkers (i.e., Irenaeus)
 
Typologic is part of "patristic exegesis" (this phrase courtesy Jean Danielou's History of Early Christian Doctrine Before the Council of Nicaea)
 
the "idea of recapitulation" involves Christ as a sort of reverse Adam (he is "recapitulating Adam in Himself," per Irenaeus)
 
Irenaeus also sees Mary as a reverse Eve ("virginal disobedience having been balanced in the opposite scale by virginal obedience")
 
"this is a striking development in the theory of recapitulation as it proposes Mary as a co-redemtrix with Christ" (132)
> from Joan Chamberlain Engelsman's The Feminine Dimension of the Divine (1979)

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