Was Jesus a human person? The question raises an
ancient difficulty, which may be stated as a dilemma. If we affirm that Jesus
was a human person, we are driven either into an impossible conception of a
double personality in the incarnate Son of God, or else into the Christology of
Liberal Protestantism which we have found to be inadequate. If we deny that
Jesus was a human person, we deny by implication the completeness of his
manhood and stand convicted of Apollinarianism. Dr. Raven argues that most of
those whom the Catholic tradition has honoured as doctors of orthodoxy were in
fact Apollinarians, though they condemned Apollinarius. (Oliver Chase Quick, Doctrines of the Creed: Their Basis in Scripture
and Their Meaning To-day [London: Nisbet & Co. Ltd., 1938], 178)
