Bishop Hefele on Pope Honorius [pp. 273-301]

280 VON HEFELE ON POPE HONORIUS. [Apnl
Orientalists were struggling ineffectually to express. Whereas, if Christ had two natures, and if will be the direct manifestation of nature, then Christ must have had two wills.
Bishop Hefele, in his argument, (p. 283) takes the ground,
that will b~longs to nature rather than to person: and he
somowhat curiously illustrates it by reference to the Trinity,
in which he says we have one nature and three persons, but
only one will. But this shows how difficult it is for Infallibility itself to inaintain its old formulas (which it is forced to
do) while thought is deepening and language is growing. For,
in the whole of modern philosophy, in consequence of its very
peculiarity, as r ooted in self-consciousness, the will is well nigh
nuiversally held to be the direct expression of personality or personal power; the nature is centralised in the person, and the
person is expressed in the will. On the basis of such a psychology, Christ, though having two natures, would have but one
will, else the uJiity of his person would be divided. Some
dim anticipation of such a relation of will to person was perhaps in the minds of those theologians, just after the days of
Honorius, who tried to make a fantastic compromise between
the Monothelites and Duothelites, by putting both together
and saying that Christ had three wills,* two for his natures
and one for his person! The Patriarch Sergius in his letter to
Honorius is not really hereti~al in saying, "that one and the
same only-begotten Son of God works (energizes) as well the
divine as the human; and all divine and human energy proceeds undivided and inseparable from one and the same Incarnate Logos." And Honorius in his reply to Sergius (which
forms the basis of the charge of heresy) is orthodox when he
writes: "The Lord Jesus Christ, the ~Iediator between God
and man, works divine works. through the humanity, which is
hypostatically united with Him (the Logos); and the same
Lord Jesus Christ works human works, since the flesh is
united with divinity in an ineffable and unique mode.'`t
Dr. Do~llinger, in his recent inaugural address as rector of
*lle~ele, Concilie~geschiehte, iii. 216-219. tllefele, Co~clliengesohiehte
iji. 183, 134.