Christology Flashcards
According to Apolonaris, what are the two things that are commingled in the person of Christ AND what “is constituted” as a result of this commingling according to “the confession” that Apollinaris states in section 5?
The uncreated and the creature; one nature out of the parts severally
According to Apollinaris, what will no one deny “is knit together”?
That the earthly body is knit together with the godhead [4]
Apolonaris - what does the flesh receive that it does not possess?
Equality to God
How is Jesus one according to Apollinaris Fragments 9 & 10?
God and flesh completed
Is Jesus a human being or is he like a human being according to Apollonaris AND why?
He is not a human being but is like a human being, since he is not coessential with humanity in his highest part
Apollinaris - What makes him “like a human being”?
He would not have been born in the likeness of a human being, unless, like a human being, he was in fact an incarnate intellect
Apollinaris explains that “the human race is saved… by the assumption of flesh (by the Logos)”. Exactly “what was needed” according to Apollinaris?
Unchangeable Intellect which did not fall under the domination of the flesh on account of its weakness of understanding but which adapted the flesh to itself without force
Apollinaris - What are the three parts that make up a human being?
Spirit, soul, and body
Jesus doesn’t have one of the three human parts, the “highest part”, which one do you think he does not have given Apollinaris’ description of him as “the heavenly human being and life-giving Spirit”?
The body?
Apollinaris - If human beings “are made up of three parts, while he (Jesus) is made up of four”, then what is Jesus?
Not a human being but a man-god [Fr 91]
What are the ways that Jesus is one according to Apollinaris?
108: moved only by a divine will; God enfleshed
109: the will of one and the same subject, divinely activated, no division within his will
117: he is not altered
