Abstract
Abstract A christological tendency that involved the denial of a human soul or mind within the God‐man and was deemed heretical by Diodore of Tarsus, Gregory of Nyssa, Gregory Nazianzen, and an ecumenical council. Concerned about the tendency of many in his day to classify Jesus as merely an extraordinary prophet or elite human, Apollinarius (c.310–390) posited the assumption of human flesh without the assumption of human intellect in the incarnation ( Demonstration of the Divine Incarnation , written in 376). As Christ had no human intellect, he therefore lacked free will, which Apollinarius assumed necessarily led to sin. Though his proposal featured a heavy emphasis upon the divinity of Christ and guarded Christ from being a sinner, Diodore and others noticed that it shortchanged the soteriological necessity of Christ's full humanity.
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