Alexandrian -Stresses divinity (later influences Eastern Orthodoxy) -Lifts divine at the expense of the humanity Antiochene -Stresses humanity -Goal is to keep God from being corrupted by humanity -Divinity and humanity are kept distinct -2 persons in 1 body -Jesus experienced humanity to its fullest -By his will, he lived a perfect life (he wins our salvation b/c of this)
Alexandrian -“Word-Flesh” -Appollinarius and Cyril -the human nature of Christ was passive and impersonal for the use of the son of God. It was real but did not have to have its own consciousness and will distinct from the Son of God’s. -The word became flesh without entering into human existence in its fullness -The two natures have to have become one nature somehow -Salvation depends on incarnation but not on full and true human existence exactly like ours. - Antiochene
“Word-Man” -The West saw the East’s view as just as serious as the heresy of Adoptionism -Emphasized humanity -Jesus Christ was a whole, complete, active person -Emphasized the two natures in him to protect the Logos’ divine nature and to make Jesus more than a passive instrument -There has to be two natures for God to be truly God and truly man -If man is not divine, how can humanity and divinity become one nature? -Full salvation depends on real incarnation but not on intimate union of humanity and divinity that would threaten their distinction. -Incarnation must include a fully personal human nature
Alexandrian
ReplyDelete-Stresses divinity (later influences Eastern Orthodoxy)
-Lifts divine at the expense of the humanity
Antiochene
-Stresses humanity
-Goal is to keep God from being corrupted by humanity
-Divinity and humanity are kept distinct
-2 persons in 1 body
-Jesus experienced humanity to its fullest
-By his will, he lived a perfect life (he wins our salvation b/c of this)
-BV
Alexandrian
ReplyDelete-“Word-Flesh”
-Appollinarius and Cyril
-the human nature of Christ was passive and impersonal for the use of the son of God. It was real but did not have to have its own consciousness and will distinct from the Son of God’s.
-The word became flesh without entering into human existence in its fullness
-The two natures have to have become one nature somehow
-Salvation depends on incarnation but not on full and true human existence exactly like ours.
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Antiochene
“Word-Man”
-The West saw the East’s view as just as serious as the heresy of Adoptionism
-Emphasized humanity
-Jesus Christ was a whole, complete, active person
-Emphasized the two natures in him to protect the Logos’ divine nature and to make Jesus more than a passive instrument
-There has to be two natures for God to be truly God and truly man
-If man is not divine, how can humanity and divinity become one nature?
-Full salvation depends on real incarnation but not on intimate union of humanity and divinity that would threaten their distinction.
-Incarnation must include a fully personal human nature