ABSTRACT
Nicaea settled the question as to whether the Son or the Logos was truly God, but the question of the person of Jesus Christ remained. Various answers were given. Apollinarianism solved the problem by truncating the manhood. It was the conviction of the Church that he was truly man, and the Church rejected Apollinarianism. Nestorianism solved the problem by endangering the unity of the person. The doctrine of the person of Jesus Christ was not isolated from but involved in the whole range of theology, the doctrines of salvation, of the sacraments, and of history. The Christological controversy was not abstract theology but was intimately related to the social issues and culture of the day. A doctrine of the person of Christ, for example, that did not take seriously the historic life of Jesus would not likely take history in general very seriously. The Christological settlement at Chalcedon illustrates the catholicity of the theology of the ancient church.
