Anthropolatrae
A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [1]
Anthropolatrae ( Ἀνθρωπόλατραι ), a nickname given by the Apollinarians ( c. A.D. 371) to the Catholics, on the assumption that the union of "perfect God" with "perfect Man" necessarily involved two Persons in Christ, and therefore that the Catholic exposition of the doctrine implied the worship of a man : an inference assumed to be avoided by the special Apollinarian dogma. See Apollinaris (the Younger). The nickname in question is mentioned by St. Greg. Naz. Orat. li., who retorts that in truth, if any one is to be called by a name of the kind, the Apollinarian ought to be called " σαρκολάτρης . "
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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [2]
( Ἀνθρωπολάτραι , Man-Worshippers ) , a name by which the Apollinarians stigmatized the orthodox, because they maintained that Christ was a perfect man, and had a reasonable soul and body. Apollinarius denied this, maintaining that the divine nature in Christ supplied the place of a rational soul, constituting, in fact, his mind. — Bingham, Org. Ecclesiastes bk. 1, ch. 2, § 16; Farrar, s.v.
