Editing Apollinarism (section)

==History==
The [[Trinity]] had been recognized at the [[First Council of Nicaea]] in 325, but debate about exactly what it meant continued. A rival to the more common belief that [[Dyophysitism|Jesus Christ had two natures]] was [[monophysitism]] ("one nature"), the doctrine that Christ had only one nature. Apollinarism and [[Eutychianism]] were two forms of monophysitism. Apollinaris's rejection of Christ having a human mind was considered an over-reaction to [[Arianism]] and its teaching that Christ was a lesser god.<ref>McGrath, Alister. 1998. ''Historical Theology, An Introduction to the History of Christian Thought.'' Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Chapter 1.</ref>

[[Theodoret]] charged Apollinaris with confounding the persons of the [[Godhead (Christianity)|Godhead]] and giving in to the heretical ways of [[Sabellius]]. [[Basil of Caesarea]] accused him of abandoning the literal sense of the scripture, and taking it up wholly with the allegorical sense. His views were condemned in a [[Synod]] at [[Alexandria]], under [[Athanasius of Alexandria]], in 362, and later subdivided into several different heresies, the main ones of which were the Polemians and the [[Antidicomarianite]]s.

Apollinaris, considering the rational soul and spirit as essentially liable to sin and capable, at its best, of only precarious efforts, saw no way of saving Christ's impeccability and the infinite value of Redemption, except by the elimination of the human spirit from Jesus' humanity, and the substitution of the Divine Logos in its stead.<ref name=CE/> Apollinarism was declared to be a [[Christian heresy|heresy]] in 381 by the [[First Council of Constantinople]].<ref name=Sollier/>