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This translation of a major document in patristic Christology, the first translation since the nineteenth century, is based upon the modern critical edition of Theodoret’s Greek text. Theodoret was the leading theologian of his time in the Antiochene tradition, and in the Eranistes (written in 447) he offers a lengthy exposition of his Christology, coupled with a refutation of the so-called...

such a way as to blend them together to the detriment of the humanity.34 In Dialogue Two Eranistes accuses Orthodox of dividing Christ into two sons by speaking of two natures;35 after some discussion Orthodox says that Eranistes denies there are two natures, but actually affirms three natures. When Eranistes again accuses Orthodox of preaching two natures and therefore two sons, Orthodox in turn accuses him of affirming three sons.36 This seems to perplex Eranistes, and he shifts the argument by
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