Neo-Apollinarianism

1. First Appeared

• • • 20th Century

2. Denied

• • • The perfection of Jesus humanity

3. Founders/Proponents

• • • William Lane Craig
    • P. Moreland

4. Teachings

• • • Christ has 2 natures, human and divine, in agreement with the council of Chalcedon
    • The soul of the human nature of Christ is the same as the second person of the Trinity, the Logos
    • The divine aspects of the Logos are concealed in the subconsciousness of Christ, while he retained the consciousness of divinity
    • Claims Christ’s human nature needed to be mixed with the divine nature to concoct a single union
    • Contradicts council of Chalcedon because that council states that Jesus is “perfect in humanity” with “a reasoning soul and body”
    • The Council of Chalcedon says “the property of each nature is preserved, coming together into a single person [posopon] and a single substance [hypostasis]
    • If the soul if the human nature of Christ is the Logos, then Jesus does not have a human soul

5. Condemned

• • • Pope Leo III in 798AD  and 21st Century