Jesus' Nature: clarification

[theCardinalbird]

Just to clarify, Jesus has two natures but is one person?

As in Jesus is fully divine and fully human?

 

[Maximilian75]

Nope nope I was wrong. See below.

 

[Arwing]

Yes – two natures united in one person, I believe. He is definitely fully God and fully man.

“We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation. The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.”
http://www.vatican.va/archive/ccc_css/archive/catechism/p122a3p1.htm

Edit – that’s at no. 467 in the link, quoting the Council of Chalcedon.

And CCC 481:

“Jesus Christ possesses two natures, one divine and the other human, not confused, but united in the one person of God’s Son.”

 

[TigerLily-1]

Correct. Jesus is one Person having two natures: a Divine nature and a human nature. True God and True Man.

https://www.ewtn.com/faith/teachings/incaa3.htm

 

[theCardinalbird]

Nope nope I was wrong. See below.

that’s ok. accidents happen

 

[Vico]

Just to clarify, Jesus has two natures but is one person?

As in Jesus is fully divine and fully human?

One person in two natures.

Catechism

467 The Monophysites affirmed that the human nature had ceased to exist as such in Christ when the divine person of God’s Son assumed it. Faced with this heresy, the fourth ecumenical council, at Chalcedon in 451, confessed:

Following the holy Fathers, we unanimously teach and confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ: the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, composed of rational soul and body; consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us as to his humanity; “like us in all things but sin”. He was begotten from the Father before all ages as to his divinity and in these last days, for us and for our salvation, was born as to his humanity of the virgin Mary, the Mother of God.91

We confess that one and the same Christ, Lord, and only-begotten Son, is to be acknowledged in two natures without confusion, change, division or separation. The distinction between the natures was never abolished by their union, but rather the character proper to each of the two natures was preserved as they came together in one person (prosopon) and one hypostasis.92

468 After the Council of Chalcedon, some made of Christ’s human nature a kind of personal subject. Against them, the fifth ecumenical council, at Constantinople in 553, confessed that "there is but one hypostasis [or person], which is our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the Trinity."93 Thus everything in Christ’s human nature is to be attributed to his divine person as its proper subject, not only his miracles but also his sufferings and even his death: "He who was crucified in the flesh, our Lord Jesus Christ, is true God, Lord of glory, and one of the Holy Trinity."94

469 The Church thus confesses that Jesus is inseparably true God and true man. He is truly the Son of God who, without ceasing to be God and Lord, became a man and our brother:

“What he was, he remained and what he was not, he assumed”, sings the Roman Liturgy.95 And the liturgy of St. John Chrysostom proclaims and sings: "O only-begotten Son and Word of God, immortal being, you who deigned for our salvation to become incarnate of the holy Mother of God and ever-virgin Mary, you who without change became man and were crucified, O Christ our God, you who by your death have crushed death, you who are one of the Holy Trinity, glorified with the Father and the Holy Spirit, save us!"96

 

[Vico]

Just to clarify, Jesus has two natures but is one person?

As in Jesus is fully divine and fully human?

Catholic Encyclopedia:

From the theological point of view the distinctions between nature and person and between the natural and the supernatural orders are of primary importance. The former arose from the dogma of the Trinity, i.e., of one Divine Nature in three persons, and chiefly from that of the Incarnation, i.e., of the two Natures, Divine and human, in the one Divine Person in Christ. The Human Nature in Christ is complete and perfect as nature, yet it lacks that which would make it a person, whether this be something negative, as Scotists hold, namely the mere fact that a nature is not assumed by a higher person, or, as Thomists assert, some positive reality distinct from nature and making it incommunicable.

Dubray, C. (1911). Nature. In The Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10715a.htm