Apollinarianism

 

1. First Appeared

• • • 361 AD

2. Denied

• • • The full humanity and perfection of Jesus Christ

3. Founders/Proponents

• • • Apollinaris the Younger, who was Bishop of the Laodicean Church

4. Teachings

• • • Jesus had 2 Natures, the human and divine, could not co-exist in the same person
    • Since Jesus was a human, He must have sinned, and the sinful nature could not share the same body with the divine nature
    • The Logos of God came upon Jesus, replacing His human mind or rational nature with God’s thus overwhelming the sinfulness inherent in Jesus humanity
    • Jesus had a human body and soul, but his mind was replaced by the Logo

5. Condemned

• • • Pope Leo III in 798AD