Albert Schweitzer wrote that, at Chalcedon, the “doctrine of the two natures dissolved the unity of the Person, and thereby cut off the last possibility of a return to the historical Jesus.” In this article, I argue that a likely cause of this pervasive perception of Chalcedon is the reflexive deployment by modern thinkers of a Lockean concept of personhood grounded in consciousness. I argue, by way of contrast, that Thomas Aquinas’s substantial account of personhood provides greater space for historical approaches to Jesus by protecting the finite integrity of Christ’s human nature and the unity of his personhood. I conclude by highlighting an implication of this discussion for the role of metaphysics in theological reflection.

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基督与历史上的耶稣的合一：阿奎那与洛克关于个人身份的探讨1

Albert Schweitzer 写道，在 Chalcedon，“两种本性的教义破坏了人的统一性，从而切断了回归历史耶稣的最后可能性。” 在本文中，我认为导致这种普遍存在于 Chalcedon 的观念的一个可能原因是现代思想家对基于意识的洛克式人格概念的反思性部署。相比之下，我认为托马斯·阿奎那对人格的实质性描述通过保护基督人性的有限完整性和他人格的统一性，为历史研究耶稣提供了更大的空间。最后，我强调了这个讨论对形而上学在神学反思中的作用的含义。