Apollinaris

Bishop of Laodicea in Syria and a learned friend and ally of Athanasius against the Arians, Apollinaris pressed the deity of Christ so hard that he denied Christ a human rational soul — the divine Word, he taught, took its place. The church judged this a mutilation of the Incarnation, and the Council of Constantinople condemned the teaching in 381; what is not assumed is not healed, his critics answered. His many writings were suppressed, surviving only in fragments quoted in catenae like this one, or smuggled under other fathers' names. He remains the cautionary genius of the fourth century.

When Julian banned Christians from teaching the classics, Apollinaris and his father recast Scripture as Homeric epic and Platonic dialogue so Christian students would lose nothing.