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The Church Fathers · c. 375–380; survives in fragments

The Demonstration of the Divine Incarnation

Apollinaris of Laodicea · c. 310 – c. 390

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What it is

A friend of Athanasius who pressed the unity of Christ until something had to give: the Word took a human body and a human animal soul, but stood himself in the place of the human mind, because two complete beings cannot become one and two wills would be two persons.

Why it lasted

Condemned in 381, and answered by Gregory of Nazianzus with the sentence that decided the matter — what has not been assumed has not been healed. Some of Apollinaris's works survived by being recopied under orthodox names, which is why he was quoted as authority at Ephesus.

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Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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