These viewpoints were encompassed under two schools of thought, Alexandrian and Antiochene. In the first school, Apollinaris of Laodicea and Cyril of Alexandria set to the task of presenting the logos as being of one united nature, i.e. Jesus’ human nature was assumed by the divine nature through incarnation. Apollinaris’ stance was that Jesus’ human mind and soul was fully replaced by the divine logos. With soteriological implications being of great import in the Alexandrian school, Apollinaris surmised that if Jesus human mind been allowed to stay, the logos would be trapped in human sin, therefore salvation would be unattainable. This entangled union of divine and human into one nature led both Apollinaris and Cyril to subscribe to an aspect of Christology known as communicatio idiomatum or communication of attributes. In other words, what can be said about the divine logos can also be said about the human logos and vice versa. For if the logos was both divine and human in one united nature, then any statement regarding the attributes of Jesus would be absolutely
These viewpoints were encompassed under two schools of thought, Alexandrian and Antiochene. In the first school, Apollinaris of Laodicea and Cyril of Alexandria set to the task of presenting the logos as being of one united nature, i.e. Jesus’ human nature was assumed by the divine nature through incarnation. Apollinaris’ stance was that Jesus’ human mind and soul was fully replaced by the divine logos. With soteriological implications being of great import in the Alexandrian school, Apollinaris surmised that if Jesus human mind been allowed to stay, the logos would be trapped in human sin, therefore salvation would be unattainable. This entangled union of divine and human into one nature led both Apollinaris and Cyril to subscribe to an aspect of Christology known as communicatio idiomatum or communication of attributes. In other words, what can be said about the divine logos can also be said about the human logos and vice versa. For if the logos was both divine and human in one united nature, then any statement regarding the attributes of Jesus would be absolutely