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Defenders Podcast

Defenders: Doctrine of Christ (Part 2): The Incarnation (2)

Defenders Podcast

William Lane Craig

Christianity, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy

4.7724 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Defenders: Doctrine of Christ (Part 2): The Incarnation (2)

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0:00.0

Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

0:06.0

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, Part 2.

0:09.0

For more information and resources from Dr. Craig, go to reasonablefaith.org.

0:15.0

Last time we talked about the two broad schools of thought in the early church concerning the person of Christ.

0:25.6

And these are typically called the Alexandrian school, because it was centered in Alexandria,

0:33.6

Egypt, and then the Antiochian School of Christology centered in Antioch.

0:43.1

But I suggested that these geographical names are probably not as elucidating as the descriptions

0:51.3

monophysite versus diophocyte Christology.

0:57.9

That is to say, one nature versus two nature Christology.

1:04.6

The proponents of a monophocyte or one nature Christology held that the second person of the Trinity,

1:15.6

the Logos, possessed a single divine human nature. Some of them understood the incarnation

1:24.6

to be a matter of the Logos' clothing himself with flesh, assuming a human

1:32.2

body as his own. By contrast, the proponents of a two-nature Christology emphasized that in

1:41.5

the incarnation the Logos took on not just a human body, but a complete

1:48.0

human nature, and therefore both a rational soul and a human body. On this view, the

1:56.0

Logos was joined at conception with the man, the human being, that was born by Mary, Jesus' mother.

2:08.5

The incarnation on this view thus involved the union of a complete human being and a complete divine being. So those are the two contesting schools of Christology

2:23.9

in the early church, the monophocyte and the diophisite view. Let's look more specifically

2:30.5

at the monophysite Christology.

2:35.0

One of the most creative of the Alexandrian thinkers

2:41.0

whose thought was to be very influential

2:45.0

in the course of the Christological controversies was Apollinarius. Apollinarius was a bishop in Laodicea

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