Apollinaris of Laodicea

Apollinaris of Laodicea the Younger ( also called Apollinar or Apollinaris; * to 315 in Laodicea; † around 390 in Antioch ) was bishop of Laodicea ( Latakia, Laodicea Latinized ) in Syria and the founder of Apollinarism.

He was a lecturer in the church of Laodicea when he was elected by 361 of the Nicene church bishop.

In the Arian controversy he supported the Nicene party in an environment that heavily favored Arianism. When he gave the then exiled Athanasius of Alexandria hospitality, he was excommunicated by the Arian side.

Apollinaris defended in his writings Christianity Neoplatonic philosopher Porphyry and against the against the Roman emperor Julian, who had fallen away from Christianity. He was a friend of Athanasius of Alexandria, Basil of Caesarea stood in correspondence and had 373 or 374 Jerome among his pupils.

In his writings, he showed his extensive philosophical education, for example, he wrote a large part of the Bible new to classical Greek form.

Apollinaris most of the Nicene doctrine from his belief that the deity and humanity could not be in a person, Jesus Christ, united. He taught Jesus would have had no human soul, but would be out of the divine Logos, and thus - in analogy to the then mind-body dualism - have also been purely carnal composed divine.

After his repeated condemnation by the church synods (375 and 382 in Rome, 378 in Antioch, 381 in Constantinople Opel ) his writings were published under foreign names.