Theology & Dogma

Christology

Orthodox Christology affirms that Jesus Christ is one Person (hypostasis) with two complete natures, divine and human, without confusion, change, division, or separation (Chalcedonian Definition). Christ has two wills (dyothelitism) and two operations.

Sources

Council of Chalcedon (451 AD)
Third Council of Constantinople (681 AD)
St. Maximus the Confessor, Opuscula Theologica

Connections

Ascension of Christ
Christ Pantocrator (Icon Type)
Fifth Ecumenical Council: Constantinople II (553)
Fourth Ecumenical Council: Chalcedon (451)
Monophysitism
Nestorianism
Sixth Ecumenical Council: Constantinople III (680-681)
St. Maximus the Confessor (c. 580-662)
The Incarnation

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