The Antiochenes approached the matter from a quite different perspective. They formally acknowledged that salvation was an action of the divine Son bringing enlightenment and divinization to a darkened and corrupted human existence. But for them this was not the heart of the matter. Salvation was principally about Christ overcoming human disobedience and resolving the consequent estrangement of humanity from God. And this, they believed, could only be accomplished by the obedient life of a man, of