Trinity

TRINITY & OTHER DOCTRINES OF GOD:
PROF. M. M. NINAN
Jesus had a human body and lower soul (the seat of the emotions) and a divine
mind.
Monophysitism argued that Christ had only “one nature”. Apollinarius’ rejection that
Christ had a human mind was considered an over-reaction to Arianism and its teaching
that Christ was not divine.
It was declared to be a heresy in 381 by the First Council of Constantinople, since Christ
was officially depicted as fully human and fully God. Followers of Apollinarianism were
accused of attempting to create a tertium quid (“third thing,” neither God nor man) out
of Jesus. Apollinarius further taught, following Tertullian, that the souls of men were
propagated by other souls, as well as their bodies.
Apollinarianism
He was charged with confounding the persons of the Godhead, and with giving into the
heretical ways of Sabellius. Basil of Caesarea accused him of abandoning the literal
sense of the scripture, and taking up wholly with the allegorical sense.
His doctrine above-mentioned was first made known A. D. 371, and has been
condemned as heretical, since A. D. 375, by various councils; among others, by the
Ecumenieal council at Constantinople in A. D. 381. Apollinaris, however, formed a con
gation of his adherents at Antioch, ordaining Vitalis as their bishop. The community
grew widely in Syria and the neighboring countries, and one even in Constantinople; but,
after the death of their leader, between A. D. 382 and A. D. 392, they became two
groups, --one, the Valentinians, who adhered to the doctrine of Apollonaris; the other,
the Polemians, who assert that God and the body of Christ became one substance, and
who, consequently, pay divine honors to the flesh; for which reason-they were called
Sarco-latroe, Anthropo-latroe and because they admit the union of both human and
divine into one Christ as Synussians. They were finally forbidden to form any assembly
by imperial edict in 388 and 397 and were forced to flee the cities. By 428 they totally
disappeared.
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B: Eutychianism
Eutychianism refers to a set of Christian theological doctrines
derived from the ideas of Eutyches of Constantinople (c. 380 – c.
456). Eutyches taught that the divinity of Christ consumed his
humanity as the ocean consumes a drop of vinegar. The separate
divine and human natures united and blended in such a manner
that although Jesus was homoousian with the Father, he