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    This chart summarizes several historical Christian heresies regarding the nature of Christ, listing the heresy, date, proponents, nature of Christ according to the heresy, those who refuted the heresy, and the refuting response. Some of the major heresies presented include Docetism which held that Jesus only appeared human but was fully divine, Adoptionism which viewed Jesus as solely human adopted by God, and Arianism which taught that Jesus was the highest of God's creations but not divine himself. The Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon helped define the orthodox view of Christ having both fully divine and fully human natures united in

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    This chart summarizes several historical Christian heresies regarding the nature of Christ, listing the heresy, date, proponents, nature of Christ according to the heresy, those who refuted the heresy, and the refuting response. Some of the major heresies presented include Docetism which held that Jesus only appeared human but was fully divine, Adoptionism which viewed Jesus as solely human adopted by God, and Arianism which taught that Jesus was the highest of God's creations but not divine himself. The Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, and Chalcedon helped define the orthodox view of Christ having both fully divine and fully human natures united in

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    Chart of Historical Christological Heresies

    Heresy Date Natures Proponents Heresy Refuted by Reply


    Docetism End C1 H- D+ Basilides; Valentinus; Jesus=God, therefore can’t be human. Irenaeus; Hippolytus; If Christ were not fully human He could not
    Patripassians; Sabellians 1John 4:1-3 redeem humanity (Heb. 2:14; 1 John 4:1-3)
    The visible Jesus was only a hologram
    Ebionitism C2 H+ D- Judaizers Jesus=human, therefore can’t be God. Irenaeus; Hippolytus; Jesus is fully divine; he is worthy of worship
    Origen; Eusebius (John 1:1; 20:28; Heb. 13:8)
    Christ got the Spirit at his baptism; he
    was not preexistent.
    Gnosticism C2 H- D- Marcion Not God, Not human: in between Iranaeus; Tertullian; 1 John 4:2
    Hippolytus; Justin Martyr;
    Apostles’ Creed
    Heirarchy: God, Logos, Angels,
    Humans
    Adoptionism C3 H+ D- Theodotus Jesus is by nature human Antioch 268 Jesus always God

    - A man adopted by God as a son


    Modalistic C3 H- D+ Sabelius, Noetus of God the Father incarnate in Jesus Origen; Tertullian Jesus separate from God but still God
    Monarchicism Smyrna
    Dynamic C3 H+ D- Theodotus The human Jesus was indwelled by Antioch 268 See Adoptionism
    Monarchicism varying degrees of divinity.
    Arianism C4 H+ D- Arius, presbyter of Homoiousios: Jesus has appearance of Athanasius; Ossius; Athanasius: Jesus homoousios –one
    Alexandria; Origen God, is of similar substance. He is the Marcellus; Nicaea 325 substance with God; Only a divine Christ can
    first and highest created being. save (Phil. 2:6; Rev. 1:8)
    Appolinarianism C4 H- D+ Apollinarius, bishop of Human body, Divine mind/soul; the Vitalis; Damascus; Basil; Human mind & divine mind in human body
    Laodicea; Justin Martyr divine Logos took the place of the Theodosius; Gregory of
    human mind. Opposed use of Nazianzus; Gregory of
    theotokos. Only human nature died. Nyssa; Constantinople 381
    Nestorianism C5 H+ D+ Nestorius, bishop of 1 moral being Cyril of Alexandira; 2 natures in 1 person
    Constantinople Ephesus 431
    (as accused by 2 people Indivisible
    opponents)
    schizophrenic
    Eutychianism C5 H- D- Eutychians; Theodosius II 1 mixed nature after incarnation Flavian of Constantinople; 2 natures: communication between them
    Pope Leo; Theodoret;
    Eusebius of Dorylaeum;
    New Hybrid: neither human or divine
    Chalcedon 451
    Monophysitism Until C7 H- D+ The human nature was swallowed by Constantinople 680 2 Natures are seperate
    the divine nature to create a new third
    nature - a tertium quid.

    (H=Human nature, D=Divine nature)

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