Tag: Chalcedon

The fourth ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in Asia Minor (what is now Turkey) met in 451 to address two major heresies: monophysitism—Jesus’ human nature was obliterated or submersed in the divine nature; and Nestorianism—Jesus was two persons. Chalcedon recognized Jesus’ divine and human natures as unified in one person, “without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.”…