Question 35 — Christ’s Nativity

After considering Christ’s conception, we must treat of His nativity. First, as to the nativity itself; second, as to His manifestation after birth.

Concerning the first there are eight points of inquiry:

(1) Whether nativity regards the nature or the person?

• (2) Whether another, besides His eternal, birth should be attributed to Christ?
• (3) Whether the Blessed Virgin is His Mother in respect of His temporal birth?
• (4) Whether she ought to be called the Mother of God?
• (5) Whether Christ is the Son of God the Father and of the Virgin Mother in respect of two filiations?
• (6) Of the mode of the Nativity;
• (7) Of its place;
• (8) Of the time of the Nativity.