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
- HebrewsRome · 67explains
- MarkRome · 68explains
- MatthewAntioch · 80explains
- LukeRome · 84explains
- JohnEphesus · 100explains
- Against Heresies: Book VLyons · 202explains
- Against Heresies: Book IIILyons · 202explains
- On the Flesh of Christ.— · 220explains
- On the Resurrection of the Flesh.— · 220explains
- A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.Rome · 258explains
- Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)Alexandria · 373explains
- The Incarnation of the WordAlexandria · 373explains
- The Catechetical Lectures of S. CyrilJerusalem · 386explains
- Select Orations of Saint Gregory NazianzenNazianzus · 390explains
- Against EunomiusNyssa · 395explains
- The Great CatechismNyssa · 395explains
- Exposition of the Christian FaithMilan · 397explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the HebrewsConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John ChrysostomConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. JohnConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious MenBethlehem · 420explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- City of GodHippo Regius · 430explains
- Expositions on the Book of PsalmsHippo Regius · 430explains
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New TestamentHippo Regius · 430explains
- Letters of St. AugustinHippo Regius · 430explains
- Reply to Faustus the ManichæanHippo Regius · 430explains
- The Harmony of the GospelsHippo Regius · 430explains
- The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of TheodoretCyrrhus · 458explains
- The Letters and Sermons of Leo the GreatRome · 461explains
- Selected Epistles of Gregory the GreatRome · 604explains
- John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox FaithDamascus · 749explains
- Anselm's Cur Deus HomoCanterbury · 1109explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Treatise on Man (qq[75]-102)Paris · 1274explains
- 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 GospelGeneva · 1564explains
- Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic ChurchGeneva · 1564explains
- Seventeen Occasional SermonsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvationNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
- A History of the Work of RedemptionNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen · Gregory of Nazianzus
If anyone has put his trust in Him as a Man without a human mind, he is really bereft of mind, and quite unworthy of salvation. For that which He has not assumed He has not healed; but that which is u
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John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · John of Damascus
Confessing, then, the same Jesus Christ, our Lord, to be perfect God and perfect man, we hold that the same has all the attributes of the Father save that of being ingenerate, and all the attributes o
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The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great · Pope Leo the Great
Letter XXXV. To Julian, Bishop of Cos See Lett. XXXIV., chap. ii. n. 5. Leo, bishop of the city of Rome to his well-beloved brother, Julian the bishop. I. Eutyches’ heresy involves many other here
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Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen · Gregory of Nazianzus
Against Apollinarius; The Second Letter to Cledonius. (Ep. CII.) Forasmuch as many persons have come to your Reverence seeking confirmation of their faith, and therefore you have affectionately asked
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A History of the Work of Redemption · Jonathan Edwards
OF CHRIST’S INCARNATION. christ became incarnate, or, which is the same thing, became man, to put himself in a capacity for working out our redemption. For though Christ, as God, was infinitely suffi
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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
CHRIST CLOTHED WITH THE TRUE SUBSTANCE OF HUMAN NATURE. The heads of this chapter are, I. The orthodoxy doctrine as to the true humanity of our Saviour, proved from many passages of Scripture, sec. 1
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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
2. The passages which they produce in confirmation of their error are absurdly wrested, nor do they gain any thing by their frivolous subtleties when they attempt to do away with what I have now adduc
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Epistle to the Smyrnæans: Shorter and Longer Versions · Ignatius of Antioch
For I know that after His resurrection also He was still possessed of flesh, And I know that He was possessed of a body not only in His being born and crucified, but I also know that He was so after
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Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen · Gregory of Nazianzus
To Cledonius the Priest Against Apollinarius. (Ep. CI.) To our most reverend and God-beloved brother and fellow-priest Cledonius, Gregory, greeting in the Lord. I desire to learn what is this fashio
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The Incarnation of the Word · Athanasius of Alexandria
§9. The Word, since death alone could stay the plague, took a mortal body which, united with Him, should avail for all, and by partaking of His immortality stay the corruption of the Race. By being ab
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, As sorrow is caused by the apprehension of a present evil, so also is fear caused by the apprehension of a future evil. Now the apprehension of a future evil, if the evil be quite certa
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider unity as regards the will; and under this head there are six points of inquiry: (1) Whether the Divine will and the human are distinct in Christ? (2) Whether in Christ's human n
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Objection 2: Further, all composition requires parts. But the Divine Nature is incompatible with the notion of a part, for every part implicates the notion of imperfection. Therefore it is impossible
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 2: This saying of Damascene may be taken in two ways: First, as referring to human nature, which, as it is in one individual alone, has not the nature of a common species, but only
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
I answer that, To pray according to sensuality may be understood in two ways. First as if prayer itself were an act of the sensuality; and in this sense Christ did not pray with His sensuality, since
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Objection 3: Further, those who are conceived of a woman contract a certain uncleanness: as it is written (Job 25:4): "Can man be justified compared with God? Or he that is born of a woman appear clea
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
We must now consider the assumption of the parts of human nature; and under this head there are four points of inquiry: (1) Whether the Son of God ought to have assumed a true body? (2) Whether He o
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
On the contrary, Augustine [*Fulgentius] says (De Fide ad Petrum xiv): "Firmly hold and nowise doubt that Christ the Son of God has true flesh and a rational soul of the same kind as ours, since of Hi
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Further, the angels introduced as witnesses for the Resurrection seem insufficient from the want of agreement on the part of the Evangelists. Because in Matthew's account the angel is described as sit
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Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59) · Thomas Aquinas
Reply to Objection 2: As Pope Leo says in the same Epistle, Christ's soul excels our soul "not by diversity of genus, but by sublimity of power"; for it is of the same genus as our souls, yet excels e
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