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Monophysitism

Monophysitism, by Vasily Surikov, 1876
Fourth ecumenical council of chalcedon 1876 Vasily Surikov, 1876 Public domain

The teaching of Eutyches that after the union Christ has one nature only, His humanity absorbed into His divinity as a drop of wine into the sea. Condemned at Chalcedon in 451, which confessed one Person in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation. The condemnation stands and has never been revisited.

Sources

  • Council of Chalcedon (451 AD), Definition of Faith (Horos)
  • St. Cyril of Alexandria, Letters on the Two Natures the Ephesus documents
  • St. John of Damascus, Exact Exposition III.3 NPNF

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