APOLLINARIANS

An ancient sect who were followers of A poll in aris or Apollinarius, bishop of Laodicea, about the middle of the fourth century. He denied that our Saviour had a reasonable human soul, and a erted that the Logos or Divine nature supplied the place of it. This is one of the sects we anathematize when we read the A than asian Creed. The doctrine of A poll in aris was condemned by several provincial councils, and at length by the General Council of Constantinople, in 381. In short, it was attacked at the same time by the laws of the emperors, the decrees of councils, and the writings of the learned, and sunk, by degrees, under their united force.