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Two Natures of Christ

Fully God and fully human: one person in whom two complete natures meet

This teaching, set out in the Chalcedonian Definition, holds that Christ is at once fully divine and fully human, possessing two complete natures united in one person. The Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions confess this dyophysite formula. The Oriental Orthodox churches instead speak of one united nature 'out of two,' a position called miaphysitism, and the difference has been a long-standing point of division between the communions.

How it traveled

  1. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  2. Against Heresies: Book III
    Lyons · 202
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  3. Against Praxeas.
    — · 220
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  4. On the Flesh of Christ.
    — · 220
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  5. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  6. Against the Arians. (Orationes contra Arianos IV.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  7. On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia. (De Synodis.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  8. Letters of Athanasius with Two Ancient Chronicles of His Life
    Alexandria · 373
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  9. Defence of Dionysius. (De Sententia Dionysii.)
    Alexandria · 373
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  10. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  11. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  12. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  13. The Great Catechism
    Nyssa · 395
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  14. Exposition of the Christian Faith
    Milan · 397
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  15. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  16. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Epistle to the Hebrews
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  17. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  18. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Philippians, Colossians, and Thessalonians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
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  20. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  21. Expositions on the Book of Psalms
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  22. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  23. Reply to Faustus the Manichæan
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  24. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  25. The Harmony of the Gospels
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. Letters of St. Augustin
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. The Third Ecumenical Council: The Council of Ephesus
    Ephesus · 431
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  28. The Seven Books of John Cassian on the Incarnation of the Lord, Against Nestorius
    Marseille · 435
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  29. The Commonitory of Vincent of Lérins, For the Antiquity and Universality of the Catholic Faith Against the Profane Novelties of All Heresies
    Lérins · 445
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  30. The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon
    Chalcedon · 451
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  31. The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret
    Cyrrhus · 458
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  32. The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great
    Rome · 461
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  33. The Fifth Ecumenical Council. The Second Council of Constantinople
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 553
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  34. The Sixth Ecumenical Council. The Third Council of Constantinople
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 680
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  35. John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith
    Damascus · 749
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  36. Anselm's Cur Deus Homo
    Canterbury · 1109
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  37. Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)
    Paris · 1274
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  38. Book Fourth. of the Holy Catholic Church
    Geneva · 1564
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  39. Book Second. of the Knowledge of God the Redeemer, in Christ, as First Manifested to the Fathers, Under the Law, and Thereafter to Us Under the Gospel
    Geneva · 1564
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  40. XIV Five discourses on the soul's eternal salvation
    Northampton, Massachusetts · 1758
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