History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps HoP 106 - Double or Nothing - Maximus the Confessor
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Dec 9, 2012 AI Snips
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Apollonarius' Controversial Claim
- Apollonarius argued Christ's human aspects led inevitably to sin and was condemned.
- He claimed human thought or will implied change and thereby moral imperfection in Christ.
The Nestorian Split
- Nestorius split Christ into two distinct entities, endangering unity.
- Critics saw his appeal to a single prosopon as a mere mask over a real duality of persons.
Cappadocians' Middle Way
- The Cappadocians proposed a blended union preserving both natures.
- They used Stoic mixture imagery to explain how divinity and humanity coexist in one person.