{"id":1613,"date":"2010-03-27T07:00:45","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=1613"},"modified":"2010-03-24T08:46:10","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T12:46:10","slug":"christology-and-heresy-2-monophysites-chalcedonians-and-nestorians-jt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/christology-and-heresy-2-monophysites-chalcedonians-and-nestorians-jt\/","title":{"rendered":"Christology and Heresy 2 &#8211; Monophysites, Chalcedonians, and Nestorians (JT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1614\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1614\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1614  \" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/TeamApologian-300x186.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"186\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1614\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">We&#39;re here to defend the faith against heresy! <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Council_of_Chalcedon\">Council of Chalcedon<\/a> (451 CE) condemned Monophysitism and Nestorianism. The following table helps to classify Monophysitism, Nestorianism, and Chalcedonianism.<\/p>\n<p>Nestorianism: 2 natures, 2 persons<br \/>\nChalcedonianism: 2 natures, 1 person<br \/>\nMonophysitism: 1 nature, 1 person<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So <strong>Nestorians<\/strong> hold that in Christ, there are <strong>two natures<\/strong> (discrete divine and human natures), and <strong>two persons<\/strong> (discrete divine and human persons).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Chalcedonians<\/strong> hold that there are <strong>two natures<\/strong> (discrete divine and human natures) but <strong>one person<\/strong> (Jesus Christ).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monophysites<\/strong> hold that there is <strong>one nature<\/strong> (a special divine-human hybrid nature) and <strong>one person<\/strong> (Jesus Christ).<\/p>\n<p>In the next post, I will discuss the basic philosophical issue that these various positions grapple with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of Chalcedon (451 CE) condemned Monophysitism and Nestorianism. The following table helps to classify Monophysitism, Nestorianism, and Chalcedonianism. Nestorianism: 2 natures, 2 persons Chalcedonianism: 2 natures, 1 person Monophysitism: 1 nature, 1 person<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,18,4,14,33,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christology","category-guest-posts","category-heresy-orthodoxy","category-history","category-incarnation","category-philosophy","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1645,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1613\/revisions\/1645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}