Following, then, the holy fathers, we all unanimously teach that our Lord Jesus Christ is to us one and the same Son, the self-same perfect in Godhead, the self-same perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man; the self-same of a rational soul and body; co-essential with the Father according to the Godhead, the self-same co-essential with us according to the manhood; like us in all things, sin apart; before the ages begotten of the Father as to the Godhead, but in the last days, the self-same, for us and for our salvation (born) of Mary the Virgin Theotokos as to the manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only-begotten; acknowledged in two natures unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the difference of the natures being in no way removed because of the union, but rather the properties of each nature being preserved, and (both) concurring into one person and one hypostasis; not as though He were parted or divided into two persons, but one and the self-same Son and only-begotten God, Word, Lord, Jesus Christ; even as from the beginning the prophets have taught concerning Him, and as the Lord Jesus Christ Himself hath taught us, and as the symbol of the fathers hath handed down to us.
My goal for this blog is to consider the intra-Trinitarian life that humanity has been brought into in Jesus Christ. If there be any good in it, may you profit as well as I have in writing. If there be ill, may the Father of lights correct me by the bride He’s given to His Son. He has already done much to undo error in the giving of Creeds, Confessions, and Catechisms.
The quotation above comes from the Church’s Definition of Chalcedon. I find that my highest thoughts of God have come from meditating on that, the Athanasian Creed, and the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed.
I pray these will keep me–and any who choose to join along–on the Narrow Way of Orthodoxy.
Thanks for your blog, nice to read. Do not stop.