Tracts theological and ecclesiastical Author:John Henry Newman Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: III. THE HERESY OP APOLLINAEIS. (From Notes, dated August 22, 1835.) THE HERESY OF APOLLINARIS. HE Apollinarian heresy is at first sight antithetical... more » to Arianism; Arians denying our Lord's true divinity, and Apollinaris His true humanity. [For a good and interesting account of Apollinaris, vid. -Wake against Bossuet, Appendix in vol. 28 of "Popish Controversy;" vid. also Petavius de Incarn. i. 6, v. 11-13, and Tillemont, Memoires, t. 7, p. 602, edit. 1706. Basnage and Bayle are unfair, selecting from the report of early writers about his opinions just what they choose.] 2. But only at first sight; for the very tenet, which constitutes the Apollinarian heresy, viz. the denial of the existence of any mind or intellect, I/ouj, in our Lord's human nature, was already professed, and in a still bolder form, by the Arians. [The Arians denied, not only the vou; in our Lord's soul, but they refused to ascribe to Him a soul of any kind ; whereas the Apolli- narians did not deny Him a soul, so that intellect was away, that is, an animal soul. This was not among the original Arian errors. Perhaps they were cut short in their full profession of heresy by the prompt indignation which their denial of our Lord's divinity excited. Denial of His human soul is not found as one of their tenets in the letters of Alexander, Arius, fee. at the beginning of the controversy, nor in the historical accounts of it, A.d. 319-341. It is apparently mentioned by Athanasius, Adelph. 1, (with the words, vSv Σ xa? óbíyov ?TroxaTaßalvovTeç,) and Apoll, i. 15, A.d. 371-2. And later still by Gregory Naz. 1 Ep. ad Cledon. t. 2, p. 87, by Theod. ffaer. iv. 1, and August. Haer. 55. King (Creed, p. 230) considers it as only partially received among the Arians. It was received, as we find from Theo...« less