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Two Wills, One Acting Subject: Dyothelitism, Personal Agency, and the Psychological Coherence of the Incarnate Christ

Grace, Daniel J.

This article examines the central conceptual difficulty of dyothelite Christology: how Jesus Christ can possess two complete natural wills, divine and human, without becoming two agents or a psychologically divided person. Building on the definition of the Third Council of Constantinople, the anthropology…