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== Four Families of Doctrine ==
== Four Families of Doctrine ==
Every Christological doctrine, orthodox or heretical, can be located in one of the four categories created by this logic box.
Every Christological doctrine, orthodox or heretical, can be located in one of the four categories created by this logic box.  There are only four possible ways of thinking about the divinity and humanity of Jesus.
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* Apollinarianism
* Apollinarianism
* Monotheletism
* Monotheletism
|style="vertical-align:top"|Jesus is God.
|style="vertical-align:top; background:#DDFFDD"|Jesus is God.
Jesus is human.
Jesus is human.
* Nicene Christianity
* Nicene Christianity

Revision as of 18:43, 21 June 2011

Four Families of Doctrine

Every Christological doctrine, orthodox or heretical, can be located in one of the four categories created by this logic box. There are only four possible ways of thinking about the divinity and humanity of Jesus.

Jesus is God.

Jesus is not human.

  • Docetism
  • Apollinarianism
  • Monotheletism
Jesus is God.

Jesus is human.

  • Nicene Christianity
Jesus is not God.

Jesus is not human.

  • Arianism
  • Monophysitism
Jesus is not God.

Jesus is human.

  • Nestorianism
  • Modernism
  • Adoptionism