I would concede that there are interests that seem more limited; however, later these may have great import.  The Christological arguments of the first few hundred years of the Church seemed, I suspect, at the time to be fairly esoteric to the mind of the faithful, especially things like how many "wills" does Jesus have or does he have a soul as well as His Divine Person.  The overall importance of these to the faith came much later; analogously I would say it was like Enistein's Theory - at first understood only by a few, now taught in high school because of how important it became to everyday life.

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