The Lutherans, however, attempt to move beyond the dichotomy between Antioch and Alexandria and, on the supposition that the unity of the two natures in Christ’s person demands a real communication or sharing of attributes, formulate a doctrine of the communication of divine attributes to the human nature, not against, but as part of, the communicatio idiomatum in concreto. The Lutherans never predicate the abstractum, divinity as such, of the abstractum humanity, but instead they rest a series of
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