Constantinople III (681): source notes
Constantinople III (681): source notes
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Topic: christology
CHR S1: Definition
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “For when we confess two natures and two natural wills, and two natural operations in our one Lord Jesus Christ, we do not assert that they are contrary or opposed one to the other (as those who err from the path of truth and accuse the apostolic tradition of doing.”
- Context: Against monothelitism.
- Bears on: X2
- Status: verified (English)
Doctrine S08X
See S08X reasoning.
S08X S1: Session XIII (sentence against the Monothelites)
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “some time Pope of Old Rome, as well as the letter of the latter to the same Sergius, we find that these documents are quite foreign to the apostolic dogmas, to the declarations of the holy Councils, and to all the accepted Fathers, and that they follow the false teachings of the heretics; therefore we entirely reject them, and execrate them as hurtful to the soul. …”
- Context: The council’s judgement on the letters of Honorius.
- Bears on: S08.3
- Status: verified (English)
S08X S2: Session XVI (acclamations)
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “Honorius, the heretic, anathema! To Pyrrhus, the heretic, anathema! To Paul the heretic, anathema! To Peter the heretic, anathema! To Macarius the heretic, anathema! To Stephen the heretic, anathema! To Polychronius the heretic, anathema! To Apergius of Perga the heretic, anathema! To all heretics, anathema! To all who side with heretics, anathema! May the faith of the Christians increase, and long years to the ortho …”
- Context: Acclamations closing the council.
- Bears on: S08.3
- Status: verified (English)
S08X S3: Letter of Pope Agatho, read at Session IV
- Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/3813.htm (public-domain English translation)
- Text: “never erred from the path of the apostolic tradition, nor has she been depraved by yielding to heretical innovations, but from the beginning she has received the Christian faith from her founders, the princes of the Apostles of Christ, and remains undefiled unto the end, according to the divine promise of the Lord and Saviour himself, which he uttered in the holy Gospels to the prince of his disciples: saying, Peter, …”
- Context: Agatho’s claim for the Roman church, received by the council.
- Bears on: S08.3
- Status: verified (English)