Apollinaris of Laodicea
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Apollinaris the Younger, also known as Apollinaris of Laodicea and Apollinarius (
Life
He collaborated with his father,
The Orthodox position (maintained by
That did not prevent it from having a considerable following. After Apollinaris's death, it divided into two sects, the more conservative taking its name (Vitalians) from Vitalis, the Apollinarist claimant to the see of Antioch. The other (Polemeans) added the further assertion that the two natures were so blended that even the body of Christ was a fit object of adoration.[3] The Apollinarian emphasis on the unity of human and divine in Christ and on the divine element in that unity was later restated in the form of Eutychianism and persisted in what was later the radically anti-Nestorian monophysite school.
Writings
Although Apollinaris was a prolific writer, scarcely anything has survived under his own name. However, a number of his writings are concealed under the names of orthodox Fathers, e.g. ἡ κατὰ μέρος πίστις, long ascribed to Gregory Thaumaturgus. They have been collected and edited by Hans Lietzmann.[3]
Two letters of his correspondence with
References
- ^ Suda, alpha, 3397
- ^ a b Sollier, Joseph. "Apollinarianism." The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 1. New York: Robert Appleton Company, 1907. 7 February 2019
- ^ a b c d e One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Apollinaris". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 2 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 183. This cites:
- Adolf von Harnack, History of Dogma, vols. iii. and iv. passim
- Robert Lawrence Ottley, The Doctrine of the Incarnation
- Guillaume Voisin, L'Apollinarisme (Louvain, 1901)
- Hans Lietzmann, Apollinaris von Laodicea und seine Schule (Tübingen, 1905).
Sources
- Alessandro Capone, "La polemica apollinarista alla fine del IV secolo: la lettera di Gregorio di Nissa a Teofilo di Alessandria", in Gregory of Nyssa: The Minor Treatises on Trinitarian Theology and Apollinarism. Proceedings of the 11th International Colloquium on Gregory of Nyssa (Tübingen, 17–20 September 2008), ed. By V.H. Drecoll, M. Berghaus, Leiden – Boston 2011, pp. 499–517.
- Edwards, Mark (2009). Catholicity and Heresy in the Early Church. Ashgate. ISBN 978-0-7546-6291-4.
- Alessandro Capone, "Apollinarismo e geografia ecclesiastica" in Auctores nostri 9, 2011, pp. 457–473.
- Christopher Beeley, The Unity of Christ: Continuity and Conflict in Patristic Tradition (Yale, 2012), chapter 4.
