Contra Eutychen
Boethius, Contra Eutychen et Nestorium (Opuscula Sacra V)
Boethius (c. 477–524)
Nature and person, told apart once and for good.
- Catch rate
- 51 / 255
- Base research
- 154
- Stat total
- 266
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.
It defines its terms first — nature, then person — and once the terms are pinned, both heresies fall out of the same confusion. Definition is the whole attack.
Written a few years after Chalcedon, defending exactly the settlement Chalcedon reached, in Latin the West could use. It has had fifteen centuries to be checked and it holds.
The Latin definition of "person" that every later Christology quotes starts here. It speaks early.
Cited for this book
Boethius sat in an assembly where a bishop’s letter about the two natures was read, saw that nobody in the room could say what "from two natures" and "in two natures" actually meant, went home and wrote it down. He defines a person as "the individual substance of a rational nature," and shows Nestorius and Eutyches erring in opposite directions from the one mistake.
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 | Opposite Errors, One Mistake | Christology | Argument | 88 | 100% | 10 |
| 1 | Random Verse | Bible | Argument | 10 | 100% | 30 |
| 18 | Chapter… | Bible | Scripture | — | — | 12 |
| 24 | An Individual Substance | Christology | Argument | 85 | 100% | 10 |
| 30 | Of and In Two Natures | Christology | Argument | 82 | 100% | 10 |