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Major Doctrinal Controversies in the Christian Church

III: Ancient Church Christological Heresies

Heresy Major Proponents Summary
Apollinarianism Apollinarius Christ had no human spirit. The Logos replaced it.
Nestorianism Nestorius The Logos indwelt the person of Jesus, making Christ a God-bearing man rather than the God-Man. Affirmed merely mechanical rather than organic union of the person of Christ.
Eutychianism Eutyches The human nature of Christ was absorbed by the Logos.
Monophysitism Severus / Julian of Halicarnassus Christ had one nature (unwilling to accept impersonal human nature of Christ).
Monothelitism Theodore of Arabia / Sergius / Cyrus of Alexandria Christ had not human will, just the one divine will.

IV: The Pelagian Controversy