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Full Humanity of Christ

What Christ did not assume, he could not heal

This affirms that Christ took on a complete human nature, including a rational soul, body, and human will. Gregory of Nazianzus captured its logic: "what is not assumed is not healed." The teaching answers errors like Apollinarianism and Docetism, which diminished Christ's humanity. By assuming all that is human, Christ is held to redeem the whole person, body and soul alike.

How it traveled

  1. Hebrews
    Rome · 67
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  2. Mark
    Rome · 68
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  3. Matthew
    Antioch · 80
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  4. Luke
    Rome · 84
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  5. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  6. Against Heresies: Book V
    Lyons · 202
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  7. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
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  8. On the Flesh of Christ.
    · 220
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  9. On the Resurrection of the Flesh.
    · 220
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  10. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  11. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  12. The Incarnation of the Word
    Alexandria · 373
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  13. Defence of Dionysius. (De Sententia Dionysii.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  14. Ephraim Syrus: The Nisibene Hymns
    Edessa · 373
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  15. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  16. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  17. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  18. Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  19. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  20. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  21. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  22. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  23. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  24. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  25. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  26. A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
    Aquileia · 411
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  27. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
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  28. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. City of God
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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Key passages(20)

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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin

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Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel · John Calvin

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Epistle to the Smyrnæans: Shorter and Longer Versions · Ignatius of Antioch

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