Apollinarianism

November 21, 2009

Named after the fourth-century bishop of Laodicea, Apollinaris the Younger, Apollinarianism describes a Christological heresy in which Christ is said to have been endowed with a human body and soul but no human mind. In place of the human mind was the divine Logos. This belief was condemned at the First Council of Constantinople in 381 and at the Council of Chalcedon in 451 since it presented a Christ who did not represent humanity fully. Christ had to be everything that God is and everything that man is. Christ, according to orthodox Christianity, is fully God and fully man.

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