Clarification of the opponents’ destination countered by Saint Mark The Ascetic in his dogmatic work Adversus Nestorianos
Clarification of the opponents’ destination countered by Saint Mark The Ascetic in his dogmatic work Adversus Nestorianos

Summary/Abstract: In his work Adversus Nestorianos, St. Mark the Ascetic combats a Christology of the separation which expresses the origenistic doctrine held in its basic lines: the pre-existence of Christ’s soul and his incarnation, emptying this way Christ’s reference and history by their action. At the same time St. Mark also rejects other origenistic statements that attributed saving events to Christ’s spirit. For St. Mark the saving events are attributed to the incarnated Son of God. Through this there is also challenged the origenistic idea that considered Christ a simple man, denying thus the hypostatic union between the Son of God and humanity in a single hypostasis. According to St. Mark only by confessing this hypostatic union in all saving events and emphasizing the identity of the same subject, God-the Man, the Christology of the separation or the origenismul can be combated.

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