Apodeixis
Apollinaris of Laodicea, Apodeixis and other fragments
Apollinaris of Laodicea
Bishop of Laodicea, and a friend of Athanasius once — until he decided Christ’s body needed no human mind inside it.
- Catch rate
- 110 / 255
- Base research
- 135
- Stat total
- 242
Base stats
Every stat is a checkable fact about the actual book, not a designer's mood. Bars are drawn against the highest value any book reaches.
Why these numbers
The game's own explanation, as a reader sees it in the backpack.
Almost nothing survives under Apollinaris’s own name — his students kept teaching after Constantinople condemned him in 381, and copies of his own hand mostly did not.
Cited for this book
Apollinaris’s own writings survive mostly in fragments quoted by opponents; his position is summarized here from Gregory of Nyssa’s Antirrheticus and Gregory Nazianzen’s Epistles 101–102 to Cledonius (NPNF2 vol. 7, public domain).
Moves learned
By levelling up. A book that develops keeps what it knew and learns the rest on its new schedule.
| Lv | Move | Type | Cat. | Pwr | Acc | PP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Logos Did the Thinking | Christology | Argument | 58 | 100% | 15 |
| 1 | Steelman | Rationality | Type shift | — | — | 10 |
| 10 | Ad Hominem | Lie | Argument | 35 | 55% | 15 |
| 18 | Twisting Truth | Lie | Argument | 65 | 100% | 15 |
What answers it
The specific move or chapter of Scripture that cuts through this argument, and why.
Apollinaris loved the deity of Christ so much he trimmed the humanity to fit it: the Word took a body, he said, but not a human mind — the Word supplied that instead. Gregory of Nazianzus’s answer was that a Saviour has to touch every part of what he saves: “if [Christ] has a soul, and yet is without a [human] mind, how is he man, for man is not a mindless animal?… How does this relate to me? For deity joined to flesh alone is not man.” No human mind in Christ means no human mind gets healed — and that includes yours.
Gregory of Nazianzus, Letter 101, as quoted in Coleman Ford, "Christological Controversies in the Early Church," TGC Concise Theology, The Gospel Coalition, thegospelcoalition.org/essay/christological-controversies-in-the-early-church/, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.