This article presents the concept of Conciliar Christology, the Christology taught at the first seven ecumenical councils of the Christian Church. It then discusses the motivations for considering Conciliar Christology when theorizing about the incarnation. These motivations include the his...
After tracing the evolution in meaning of the Greek word hairesis from ‘choice’ to ‘false belief’, this entry examines the criteria according to which a belief was judged to be heretical, either by particular controversialists or by bodies which purported to legislate on behalf of the Chris...