Still on Shoemaker's Dormition. In Greek that's Coemesis. The term is deliberate - this is a superset of Assumption (to Heaven). Some Dormitions exist wherein Mary is not Assumed. Even where Assumed - as we Catholics now believe - we're still unsure if Mary were assumed alive or dead.
Although Dormition does not intersect Christology, the Assumption might. If Christ had a human nature, as Nestorius posited, and if Christ truly died on the Cross, then he had a perishable body. Why should his mortal mother not, also? Here the issue which the Vatican has not addressed - if Mary died on Earth such that her dead body was Assumed to Heaven.
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