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Welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history. On this

episode we're going to be talking about an eight syllable heresy. Now the

eight syllable heresy is this. Are you ready? I will pronounce it slowly and see if you can follow along.

Apollinarianism.

Apollinarianism was declared a heresy first at 381 by the Council of Constantinople.

It was also dealt with at the Council of Calcedon and 451.

What is a Polyinarianism?

Apollinarianism is so named from the Bishop Apollinaris.

Apollinaris was born in 310.

Some think he could have been born as early as 300, we don't know for sure, but he was probably

born around 310.

He died in 390, so his life almost spanned the entire fourth century.

In 360, he was appointed Bishop of Leodicea.

That of course was a very important city, a very important church there.

It's a church that has its roots all the way back to the pages of the

New Testament and there from 360 until 375 a Paul and Aris' Bishop. He was also friends with Athanasius. Athanasius was that crucial fourth century figure in the church's development of Christology. It was Athanasius who fought so valiantly for the doctrine that Christ is fully God and fully human.

Athanasius's foe was Arius and Arianism, and Apollonaris shared that concern with Athanasius against

Arius and against the teachings of Arius.

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