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The Church Fathers · c. 438

On the Unity of Christ

Cyril of Alexandria · c. 376–444

What it is

A late dialogue restating the case that the one who was born, suffered, and died is the eternal Word himself and not a man joined to him.

Why it lasted

Cyril's clearest and calmest statement of the christology that Ephesus endorsed and that still defines Eastern orthodoxy.

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