origins through the power of the Lord, of the new Adam. The Marian view of the Church and the ecclesial and salvation-historical view of Mary lead us back in the end to Christ and to God the Trinity; because here it becomes clear what holiness means, what the dwelling of God in man, and in the world, actually is, and what we are to understand by the “eschatological” tension in the Church. Thus it is only with the chapter on Mary that the Council’s ecclesiology is rounded out and brought back to its