-Accepted by both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism despite the division it caused -Most Protestants accept it, though its language is not binding to them -It expresses the hypostatic union altered from Cyril’s description -Cyril’s communicatio idiomatum is not mentioned, but Leo wrote it into Tome. Chalcedon did not reject it. -Communicatio idiomatum was not affirmed to keep Antiochenes on board -Purpose was to protect the mystery of the incarnation -“…not concerned so much to formulate a theory as to safeguard the truth…” -Affirms two natures of Antiochene Christology but states that the natures are not to be divided -Four Fences (1 and 2 grouped together) 1. Without confusion: protects from Eutychianism and monophysitism, preserve the unity of the new hybrid person (tertium quid, third something) 2. Without Change: protects from Eutychianism and monophysitism, preserve the unity of the new hybrid person (tertium quid, third something) (3 and 4 grouped together) 3. Without Division: Protect from Nestorianism which made Jesus Christ two different persons. 4. without Separation: Protect from Nestorianism which made Jesus Christ two different persons. -Luther: embraced Nicaea and Chalcedon as respected landmarks of Christian Doctrine, but rejected impassability and attributed creaturely experiences to the Son of God in his incarnate state. Luther believed it is ok to say God was born, suffered, died, was crucified as MORE than a figure of speech. He carried communicatio idiomatum to its “logical conclusion”. Those like Leo and Cyril could not because of their commitment to impassability.
-451: the final statement of Christology that the Church agrees to
ReplyDelete-4 fences / 4 withouts
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-Accepted by both Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism despite the division it caused
ReplyDelete-Most Protestants accept it, though its language is not binding to them
-It expresses the hypostatic union altered from Cyril’s description
-Cyril’s communicatio idiomatum is not mentioned, but Leo wrote it into Tome. Chalcedon did not reject it.
-Communicatio idiomatum was not affirmed to keep Antiochenes on board
-Purpose was to protect the mystery of the incarnation
-“…not concerned so much to formulate a theory as to safeguard the truth…”
-Affirms two natures of Antiochene Christology but states that the natures are not to be divided
-Four Fences
(1 and 2 grouped together)
1. Without confusion: protects from Eutychianism and monophysitism, preserve the unity of the new hybrid person (tertium quid, third something)
2. Without Change: protects from Eutychianism and monophysitism, preserve the unity of the new hybrid person (tertium quid, third something)
(3 and 4 grouped together)
3. Without Division: Protect from Nestorianism which made Jesus Christ two different persons.
4. without Separation: Protect from Nestorianism which made Jesus Christ two different persons.
-Luther: embraced Nicaea and Chalcedon as respected landmarks of Christian Doctrine, but rejected impassability and attributed creaturely experiences to the Son of God in his incarnate state. Luther believed it is ok to say God was born, suffered, died, was crucified as MORE than a figure of speech. He carried communicatio idiomatum to its “logical conclusion”. Those like Leo and Cyril could not because of their commitment to impassability.
-BV