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It is not simply false to say that the constitutive Christian confession, "Jesus is the Christ," entails the two dogmas of the triune nature of God and of the divine-human natures of the one person Jesus Christ. In truth, these two dogmas formulate necessary presuppositions and implications of the confession, not merely necessary consequences of this, that, or the other earlier formulation of it or of the assumptions made in so formulating it. But since the dogmas formulate these presuppositions and implications only by developing and seeking to harmonize a plurality of earlier formulations, they are entailed by the Christian confession -- not simply as such, but -- only as thus formulated.

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One may also suggest that, if modalism upholds the first presupposition of radical monotheism only at the expense of the first assertion, Nestorianism upholds the second presupposition of Jesus' real historicity and genuine humanity only at the expense of the second assertion. ContraiwiseContrariwise, tritheism makes the first assertion only at the expense of the one presupposition of radical monotheism, while Eutychianism makes the second assertion only at the expense of the other presupposition of Jesus' real historicity and genuine humanity.

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