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Abstract: Classical Christology confesses that the incarnate Christ has two distinct but harmonious wills, one that is natural to his divine nature, another that is proper to his humanity. This claim is often criticized as incoherent. This article re-examines the question, and argues that, pace its critics, a dual-will Christology continues to offer important insights into the dynamics of incarnational action. After tracing the logic of the two-wills position in scripture and early Christian theology, the article considers what it may and may not mean to ascribe two wills to a single subject. A pneumatological approach is proposed as a helpful way of understanding the relationship between Christ's two wills.

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