The Apollinarian dispute

Doctrinal · 381 · regional

Apollinaris tried to explain how the divine and the human could be one by leaving out the human mind. The answer against him became the rule for everything that followed: what is not assumed is not healed.

How it ended. Set aside at Constantinople in 381, and the principle behind the answer governs the christological argument for the next three centuries.

How it ran

381 — First Council of Constantinople (where it was settled). Names the Apollinarians among the parties set aside.

What was at issue

The Word takes the place of the human mind what was at issue

Who stood in it

Apollinaris of Laodicea accused in it
Gregory of Nazianzus pressed the charge

After The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Constantinople I (381), canon 1.