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St. Gregory of Nyssa wrote two works during the 380s attacking the Christological teaching of Apolinarius of Laodicea and his followers. These are the substantial treatise Refutation of the Views of Apolinarius (the Antirrheticus) and the short letter to the Bishop of Alexandria, To Theophilus, Against the Apollinarians. The Antirrheticus is a hostile commentary on Apolinarius’s work entitled The...

with the body or the soul, nor does he maintain that the “person of soul” is either mindless or fleshless; rather, he applies the name according to which tendency predominates in a person’s moral choices. Those who “discern all things and … are themselves subject to no one else’s scrutiny” are both enfleshed and ensouled but are still called “persons of spirit.”450 A man who, maddened by the passion of the flesh, violates his father’s bed451 is neither “soulless” nor deprived of reason. On the same
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