Sentences with phrase «constitutive feminine»

What does Balthasar mean, for example, when he says that the Church is a collective subject who has a single consciousness in Christ (analogy of the «body of Christ») and at the same time says that in the fiat of Mary the Church receives «her fundamental and constitutive feminine dimension» (Fr Campbell's words)?

Do we primarily participate in the mind or collective consciousness of Christ as members of his body (the masculine / bridegroom dimension) or is our participation more akin to the fundamentaland constitutive feminine dimension in the role of Mary (or bride dimension)?