ABSTRACT
While post-Chalcedonian authors such as Leontius of Byzantium, Pamphilus and Maximus the Confessor scoured the Aristotelian commentaries for technical terms and arguments which would undergird their own Christological teaching, they were not interested in philosophy for its own sake, and did not construct a coherent ontological framework for their redefinitions of the term hypostasis or their debates about the relative merits of “assumption” and “composition” for models of Incarnation. Aristotelian terms were ripped out of context to provide a vocabulary for the defence of the peculiarly Christian preaching of the Word made flesh.
