Humanity of Christ Flashcards
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Council of Chalcedon
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AD 451 affirmed that Jesus is truly man and truly God and that the two natures are so united as to be without mixture, confusion, separation, or division.
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Heresy of Docetism
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Jesus did not have a real body or true human nature. Platonic philosophy believed that matter was imperfect and a divine being couldn’t be imperfect. It only seemed like he had a body but was a phantom sort of being.
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Monophysite heresy
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A mixture of two natures in one. The heresy involves either a deified human nature or a humanized divine nature.
