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Counting Natures and Hypostases: St Maximus the Confessor on the Role of Number in Christology20.12.2022. |
| One of the earliest uses of ‘number’ in theology concerned the
very possibility of counting hypostases as a mark of their distinctness.
However, the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) allowed the use of number
for counting two natures, divine and human in one single hypostasis of
Christ. This statement raised severe opposition from many Christians in
the aftermath of Chalcedon for it had been interpreted as introducing
division within the person of Christ. As the main supporter of the dogma
of two wills in Christ (δυοθελητισμός), St Maximus the Confessor (c.
580-662 AD) took position against the interpretation of number as
producing separation and opposition in Christ. The aim of this article
is to present the structure of his arguments and to uncover the
philosophical implications of his theory of number in Christology.
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