Abstract

According to the teaching of Leontius of Byzantium in Contra Eutychianos et Nestorianos, Christ's human nature is a universal. In his late work, the Epilyseis, however, Leontius affirms that Christ's human nature is an individual (a unique collection of universals), and argues that such a nature fails to be a subsistent on the grounds that it exists in the person of the Word. Thus, the interpretation of Leontius' teaching offered by Loofs is substantially correct, even though (as is well-known, and contrary to Loofs) Leontius does not use the term enhupostatos to talk about his theory of the nature's nonsubsistence.

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