Mattathias
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“I want trinitarianism without the ‘Jesus is not a human person’ teaching.”
You can’t have it. Church historian Philip Schaff explains why:
“The anhypostasia, impersonality, or, to speak more accurately, the enhypostasia, of the human nature of Christ. This is a difficult point, but a necessary link in the orthodox doctrine of the one God-Man; for otherwise we must have two persons in Christ, and, after the incarnation, a fourth person, and that a human, in the divine Trinity.”
(History of the Christian Church, §142. The Orthodox Christology - Analysis and Criticism)
You can’t have it. Church historian Philip Schaff explains why:
“The anhypostasia, impersonality, or, to speak more accurately, the enhypostasia, of the human nature of Christ. This is a difficult point, but a necessary link in the orthodox doctrine of the one God-Man; for otherwise we must have two persons in Christ, and, after the incarnation, a fourth person, and that a human, in the divine Trinity.”
(History of the Christian Church, §142. The Orthodox Christology - Analysis and Criticism)