>pretty exotic theology

Which part(s)?

>And the reason for that was not because the Fathers were trying to have a conversation about Mary, but because they were trying to think through questions about Jesus.

Yes. (💀) This just saying back to me what I said:

"The conceptual misunderstanding, an itch, that needed scratched that led to the idea/solution of a sinless Mary is the wrestling with how Christ would be sinless if born through a fallen human--the same state that results in other humans being in sin."