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.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
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