Chalcedonian Christianity
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Chalcedonian Christianity is a term referring to the branches of
Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, thus acknowledging the commitment of Chalcedonism to Nicene Christianity.[4][5]
Chalcedonian Christology is upheld by Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestantism, and thus comprises >95% of Christianity.[6]
Chalcedonian Christology
Those present at the Council of Chalcedon accepted
heresies (which had also been rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325). Those present at the council also rejected the Christological doctrines of the Nestorians, Eutychians, and Monophysites
.
The Chalcedonian doctrine of the
hypostasis. It asserts that the natures are unmixed and unconfused, with the human nature of Christ being assumed at the incarnation without any change to the divine nature. It also states that while Jesus Christ has assumed a true human nature, body and soul, which shall remain hypostatically united to his divine nature for all of eternity, he is nevertheless not a human person,[7][8][9][10]
as human personhood would imply a second created hypostasis existing within Jesus Christ and violating the unity of the God-man.
The Hypostatic Union was also viewed as one nature in Roman Christianity by a minority around this time.[11] Single-nature ideas such as Apollinarism and Eutychianism were taught to explain some of the seeming contradictions in Chalcedonian Christianity.[citation needed]
Major denominational families in Christianity:
Schism (1552)
(16th century)
(11th century)
Council of Ephesus (431)
Council of Chalcedon (451)
- (Not shown are non-Nicene, nontrinitarian, and some restorationist denominations.)
References
- ^ Meyendorff 1989, p. 165-206.
- ^ Grillmeier 1975, p. 543-550.
- ^ Meyendorff 1989, p. 167-178.
- ^ Meyendorff 1989, p. 171-172.
- ^ Kelly 2006, p. 296-331.
- ^ "Global Christianity: A Report on the Size and Distribution of the World's Christian Population". Pew Research Center. 19 December 2011. Archived from the original on 30 July 2013. Retrieved 17 August 2012.
- ^ "Is Jesus a Human Person?". NCR. 9 December 2016. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ^ "Jesus Is Not a Human Person". Catholic Answers. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ^ "Was Christ a Divine-Human Person? | Reasonable Faith". www.reasonablefaith.org. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- ^ "Person (in theology) | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2023-02-05.
- OCLC 839396781.
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