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Basil the Great on the person of Christ

C.330 – 379 · GREEK FATHER
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°
NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located in this corpus

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Not determined. The texts read are on the Trinity, creation and church order. He died in 379, seventy-two years before Chalcedon, so the period label is safe but there is no text here to ground a stance.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

One person in two natures, unconfused and undividedCALVIN · CHALCEDON · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · EPHESUS · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · ZWINGLI
Word united to flesh, with the human soul underemphasizedATHANASIUS
Affirms both deity and humanity before the categories were fixedCHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Bishop of Caesarea and monastic legislator. Supplied the Trinitarian vocabulary the church still uses — one ousia, three hypostases — and argued the Spirit's deity in De Spiritu Sancto while deliberately never calling him God outright.

7 OF 11 POSITIONS QUOTED
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