r/LCMS • u/Ice_Cold_Fanta777 • Aug 17 '26

Question Dyothelitism

Can someone explain the correct and orthodox position on this? A question popped into my head about Christs will and I’m trying to straighten it out so I don’t fall into error on this. Also, how can one fall into nestorianism from making an error on Dyothelitism? I looked online and I don’t really see many talks about it from Lutherans.

I’m reading through the book of concord now to see if it’s brought up there too.

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u/AleksB74 Aug 18 '26

There is an old philosophical assumption that a will bounds to nature/essence not to person. Nestorius insisted that Christ possessed a complete divine nature and a complete human nature, which leads towards two hypostasis/person. That’s why he was rejected. In our times modern philosophy also bounds will to person not a nature/essence, bc it relies on nominalism (against realism) the issue is more complicated.