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Article: Christ in Christian Tradition, vol. 2, part 2, The Church of Constantinople in the Sixth Century.
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- The Christian Century
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- May 15, 1996
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By Aloys Glillmeier, S.J., with Theresia Hainthaler Westminster John Knox, 565 pp., $50.00.
Who do you say that I am? The question at the heart of the Christian faith has never been simple. How can Jesus of Nazareth be both human and divine? The early church struggled with this question for several centuries before coming up with a definitive statement at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The council reaffirmed the christological definitions of Nicea and Constantinople and condemned the view of Nestorius and Eutyches. It affirmed the existence in Jesus Christ of one person made up of two natures, united unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly and inseparably.
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