The Idea of Logos-Soul as a Mediator between the Divinity and Bodily Corporeality in Leontius of Byzantium
2017
Abstrakt
The iconoclasts' erroneous gnoseological reasoning that Christ's humanity was some sort of an ideal entity capable of being intelectually contemplated and therefore, ineffable, just as any other abstract ideal notion, inevitably led them to seek a mediator between Divinity and bodily corporeality. In support of this thinking, the iconoclasts employed the Origenistic Christology of Leontius of Byzantium.