Editing Monothelitism (section)

== Contemporary Monothelitism ==
Some contemporary theologians such as [[Alvin Plantinga]] have controversially argued that the council of Chalcedon allowed for two positions on Christology, an abstractist view where Jesus only assumed the property of being a human, while in the concretist view, he assumed concrete human nature, with a human soul, mind, and will. He argued that the abstractist position implies monothelitism within the incarnation, while the concretist position is dyothelitism. This monothelite view has been also held by [[J. P. Moreland]] and [[William Lane Craig]]. Craig has offered his own of Christology, where he argues that Jesus did not assume a human soul in the incarnation, but the soul of Jesus was instead the Logos, thus teaching that the will and rationality of Christ were divine. This is similar to the teaching of [[Apollinaris of Laodicea|Apollinarius]], whose Christology was condemned as a heresy by the [[First Council of Constantinople|first council of Constantinople]]. However, they sought to revise the doctrines of Apollinarus by arguing that Christ in eternity already possessed those properties necessary for human personality in archetypal form. However, these new Monothelite proposals are highly controversial, and all major branches of Christendom affirm [[dyothelitism]] as in the statements of the third council of Constantinople.{{Sfn|Stamps|2014|p=24-32}}

William Lane Craig's [[Social trinitarianism|social trinitarian]] model in which all three persons are to be distinguished by having their own centers of consciousness and will lead one to view will as an attribute of hypostasis instead of nature, thus implying monothelitism.{{Sfn|Craig|2022}}