exposition probably demonstrates, it may try to do too much. It requires a ‘Cyrillian insight’, something his detractors, past and present, lack. In the course of expounding, and so clarifying, the meaning of the mia physis formula, Cyril conceived and formulated a major christological innovation concerning the true character of the incarnational ‘becoming’ and the ensuing union between the Son/Word of God and his humanity. This is why he was willing, in the end,
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