Twelve Topics on the
Faith.
Wherein is Given Also the Formula of
Excommunication, and an Explication is Subjoined to Each.
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Topic I.
any one says that the body of
Christ is uncreated, and refuses to acknowledge that He, being the
uncreated Word (God) of God, took the flesh of created humanity and
appeared incarnate, even as it is written, let him be anathema.
Explication.
How could the body be said to be uncreated? For
the uncreated is the passionless, invulnerable, intangible. But
Christ, on rising from the dead, showed His disciples the print of the
nails and the wound made by the spear, and a body that could be
handled, although He also had entered among them when the doors were
shut, with the view of showing them at once the energy of the divinity
and the reality of the body.
Yet, while being God, He was recognised as man in
a natural manner; and while subsisting truly as man, He was also
manifested as God by His works.