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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...

of both natures) ‘the Son of man’, as we read, came down from heaven when the ‘Son of God’ assumed flesh from that Virgin through whom He was born. And again, the ‘Son of God’ is said to have been crucified and buried, although this did not pertain to His divinity as such, in which the Only-begotten is co-eternal and consubstantial with the Father; but He endured this in the weakness of His human nature. Hence, too, we all profess in the Creed that the only-begotten ‘Son of God’ was crucified and
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