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St. Leo the Great: Letters is unavailable, but you can change that!

As the vestiges of the Roman political machine began to collapse in the fifth century AD, the towering figure of Pope St. Leo the Great came into relief amid the rubble. Sustained by an immutable doctrine transcending institutions and cultures, the Church alone emerged from the chaos. Eventually, the Roman heritage became assimilated into Christianity and ceased to have a life of its own. It...

this is the sort of reparation we needed) one and the same mediator between God and men, the man Jesus Christ,14 could die in the one nature and not die in the other.15 In the whole and perfect nature of the true man, then, the true God was born, complete in His own nature, complete in ours. But by ours we mean that which the Creator formed in us at the beginning and which He took upon Himself, to redeem it. That part which the Deceiver added and man, deceived, accepted left no traces in the Saviour.
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