Chalcedonian Definition

[plombardo22]

I had a question for class recently, and it got me thinking. I am far from a specialist in Christological heresies, so I would love your (name removed by moderator)ut.

How does the Chalcedonian Definition describe the nature of Christ and, in so doing, refute each of the Trinitarian and Christological heresies (Monarchianism, Arianism, Apolloarianism, Nestorianism, and Monophysitism)?Incorporate the notion of “hypostatic union”.

 

[karebear92]

I had a question for class recently, and it got me thinking. I am far from a specialist in Christological heresies, so I would love your (name removed by moderator)ut.

How does the Chalcedonian Definition describe the nature of Christ and, in so doing, refute each of the Trinitarian and Christological heresies (Monarchianism, Arianism, Apolloarianism, Nestorianism, and Monophysitism)?Incorporate the notion of “hypostatic union”.

Like this: “Following, therefore, the holy fathers, we confess one and the same Son, who is our Lord Jesus Christ, and we all agree in teaching that this very same Son is complete in his divinity and complete—the very same—in his humanity, truly God and truly a human being, this very same one being composed of a rational soul and a body, one-in-being (homoousios) with the Father as to his divinity and one-in-being with us—the very same one—as to his humanity, being like us in every respect apart from sin. As to his divinity, he was born from the Father before the ages, but as to his humanity, the very same one was born in the last days from the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, for our sake and the sake of our salvation: one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only Begotten, acknowledged to be unconfusedly, unalterably, undividedly, inseparably in two natures, since the difference of the natures is not destroyed because of the union, but on the contrary, the character of each nature is preserved and comes together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis, not divided or torn into two persons but one and the same Son and only-begotten God, Logos, Lord Jesus Christ—just as in earlier times the prophets and also the Lord Jesus Christ himself taught us about him, and the Creed of our Fathers transmitted to us.”

 

[karebear92]

Arius said the following: the Father Alone is God, The Son is Made, The Son is from nothing, and that the son had a beginning. By affirming the Council of Nicaea they also threw out all of those heresies.

Apollinaris said that Christ had a divine mind. By affirming the Formula Reunion, they also affirmed a the middle ground between the Antiochene and Alexandrian (who Apollinaris formed) view.

Nestorius divides Christ’s natures by saying that Mary gave birth to the human being.

Monophysitism was formed by Eutyches who said that Christ was one in nature. He basically said that before Christ was human he had two natures and afterwards he had one, which made very little sense to Pope Leo the Great when he read it in the trial transcripts.