I find that in the Nicene Creed,  when we repeat it in English, we lose sensitivity to one of the issues that stands out in the Latin rendition of the Creed.  In English, we have one word for "man" .  In Latin, there are two words often translated "man":  homo (human) and vir (male)  By doing this, we lose track of the important significance.  "For us [men]  and for our salvation, he came down from heaven,  by the power of  the Holy Spirit he became incarnate of the Virgin Mary, and was made man."   Was made man...homo...human, like us, like all of us.  NOT was made male [vir]. 

But it seems like the church wants to say that the translation should be male, not human.  And that eliminates 1/2 of the human race--all who are homo but not vir.  How do we recapture that Jesus is like ALL of us...including the women?   Is it really the characteristic of vir that is determinative of identity with Jesus?  or his maleness?  We need to protest harder.

Pr Chris