re incarnation two minds of christ nabil wrote both families agree that he who wills and acts is always the one hypostasis of the logos incarnate marhaba nabil if we posit two minds in christ the mind of the logos and the mind of the human jesus then we must admit two wills a mind is not a mind without a will i know this has been dealt with in past church prnouncements but there is a philosophical problem here that should examined t v morris argued that the incarnation can be seen like this mind of logos here the mind of jesus is circumsribed by god the human son god the son has complete access to the human mind mind but the human mind only has access to the mind of god the son when the son allows access this explains why jesus said even he did not know the time of the kingdom the human will acted in accordance with the divine will according to free human decision but if the human will would have decided differently than what was intended the divine will would have interceded but this was never the case he employs some very interesting analogies to support the one person two mind theory the ideas of a completely healthy version of split personality from the field of psychology and the intriguing ideas of being in a dream seeing yourself acting knowing that is you but also being omniscient the one hypostasis would be the unity of the two minds agreed but i am still waiting for morris and others to respond to the lingering problem of two minds making two persons christian analytic philosophers are breaking new ground in explicating the rationality of theism and the incarnation ted kalivoda tedr athena cs uga edu university of georgia athens institute of higher ed note that person is being used in a more abstact sense here than the english we connect person with personality and other things that are human attributes i m not entirely sure whether i d want to apply personality to god but if it is appropriate then i think we d have to say that christ had two personalities clh
