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| | Chalcedonian Creed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06) |
 | | This creed was adopted at the Fourth Ecumenical Council, held at Chalcedon, located in what is now Turkey, in 451, as a response to certain heretical views concerning the nature of Christ, namely Apollinarianism (lessening Christ's manhood), Nestorianism (endangering the unity of Christ's unique person), and Eutychianism (absorbing of the human into the divine). |
 | | To be acknowledged in two natures, not confused, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, |
 | | Not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning [have declared] concerning Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us. |
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