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The Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 116
… And when the crisis demanded that all the most holy bishops gathered together should set forth an unanimous definition (sumphonon horon) for the explanation and clearer understanding of our confession of our Lord Jesus Christ …
2,294 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 115
… Add then to the definition, according to the judgment of our most holy father Leo, that there are two natures in Christ united unchangeably, inseparably, unconfusedly. [The Committee then sat in the oratory of the …
2,685 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 110
… They held that the body of Christ was infinite like his divine nature; they did not hesitate to say that his body was at first full of devils which were driven out when the Word …
2,308 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 137
… that of the divine and human nature there was made an hypostatic union, whereof is one Christ; but from these expressions shall try to introduce one nature or substance [made by a mixture] of the …
2,229 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 247
… We affirm that in Christ there be two wills and two operations according to the reality of each nature, as also the Sixth Synod, held at Constantinople, taught, casting out Sergius, Honorius, Cyrus, Pyrrhus, Macarius …
2,293 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 146
… definition of Chalcedon. And as we recognize two natures, so also we recognize two natural wills and two natural operations. For we dare not say that either of the natures which are in Christ in …
2,273 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 168
… At Chalcedon he was compelled to pronounce a special anathema against Nestorius. (Mansi vii. 193, Dict. Christ. Biog. iii. 374.) The letter is written after the deposition and before the banishment to Nicerte. Cf. Ep …
2,363 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 145
… into two Persons, nor confused into one composite nature; but we confess one and the same only-begotten Son, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, not one in another, nor one added to another …
2,394 wordsLeo the Great & Gregory the Great • SECTION 58
… And herein our cause for rejoicing grows greater when we see that the more fiercely the foe assailed Christ's servants, the more did he afflict himself. For lest the assent of other Sees to …
2,269 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 11
… He conquered the Manichæan dualism, hylozoism, and fatalism, and saved the biblical idea of God and of creation, and the biblical doctrine of the nature of sin and its origin in the free will of …
2,283 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 83
For there is one Lord Jesus Christ, not two, the same is God, the same is Lord, the same is King. He suffered in the flesh, and rose again, and ascended into heaven in the …
2,224 wordsGregory of Nyssa — Dogmatic Treatises • SECTION 133
… But at the Council of Chalcedon, 451, it was brought forward: though even then it appears that it was far from attaining general acceptance. By 540 it had become the accepted form (according to a …
2,384 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 104
… Are they not then committing a crime, in their very thought to gainsay so great and ecumenical a Council? are they not in transgression, when they dare to confront that good definition against Arianism, acknowledged …
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