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Chalcedon (451): source notes

Chalcedon (451): source notes

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Topic: christology

See christology reasoning.

CHR S1: Definition of faith

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “must be confessed to be in two natures, unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably [united], and that without the distinction of natures being taken away by such union, but rather the peculiar property of each nature being preserved and being united in one Person and subsistence, not separated or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son and only-begotten, God the Word, our Lord Jesus Christ, as the P …”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: X1
  • Status: verified (English)

CHR S2: Acts (Leo read)

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “But the most holy archbishop Leo says that there are two natures in Christ unchangeably, inseparably, unconfusedly united in the one only-begotten Son our Saviour.”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: X1
  • Status: verified (English)

Topic: church-authority

See church-authority reasoning.

PAP S1: Canon 28

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3811.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “For the Fathers rightly granted privileges to the throne of old Rome, because it was the royal city.”
  • Context: Rome’s privileges grounded in its civic rank; rejected by Leo.
  • Bears on: P2
  • Status: verified (English)