Philosophy of Dionysius the Areopagite: Modal Ontology

Theodore the Studite’s Christology Against Its Logical Background

“…Patriarch Photius, writing between 867 and 877, repeated Theodore's Christological thesis when answering to a -imaginary or not -iconoclast opponent. 32 The opponent seemed to push Photius toward iconoclasm starting from Patriarch's expected rejection of the Nestorian idea of the incarnation into a particular man. He then put before Photius an alternative: the Logos incarnated into either particular man (τὸν ἐπὶ µέρους [ἄνθρωπον]) or the man in general (τὸν καθόλου ἄνθρωπον) [48, pp.…”