Editing Chalcedonian Christianity (section)

==Chalcedonian Christology==
{{Main|Chalcedonian Creed|Hypostatic union}}
{{See also|Neo-Chalcedonism}}

Those present at the Council of Chalcedon accepted [[Trinitarianism]] and the concept of [[hypostatic union]], and rejected [[Arianism]], [[Modalism]], and [[Ebionism]] as [[heresies]] (which had also been rejected at the [[First Council of Nicaea]] in AD 325). Those present at the council also rejected the Christological doctrines of the [[Nestorianism|Nestorians]], [[Eutyches|Eutychians]], and [[Monophysitism|Monophysites]].

The Chalcedonian doctrine of the [[Hypostatic union|Hypostatic Union]] states that Jesus Christ has two natures, divine and human, possessing a complete human nature while remaining one divine [[Hypostasis of Christ|hypostasis]]. It asserts that the natures are unmixed and unconfused, with the human nature of Christ being assumed at the incarnation without any change to the divine nature. It also states that while Jesus Christ has assumed a true human nature, body and soul, which shall remain hypostatically united to his divine nature for all of eternity, he is nevertheless not a human person,<ref>{{Cite web |title=Is Jesus a Human Person? |url=https://www.ncregister.com/blog/is-jesus-a-human-person |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=National Catholic Register|date=9 December 2016 |language=en|author-first1=Steven D. |author-last1=Greydanus}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Jesus Is Not a Human Person |url=https://www.catholic.com/magazine/online-edition/is-jesus-a-human-person |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=Catholic Answers}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Was Christ a Divine-Human Person? {{!}} Reasonable Faith |url=https://www.reasonablefaith.org/writings/question-answer/was-christ-a-divine-human-person |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=www.reasonablefaith.org |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Person (in theology) {{!}} Encyclopedia.com |url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/person-theology |access-date=2023-02-05 |website=www.encyclopedia.com}}</ref> as human personhood would imply a second created hypostasis existing within Jesus Christ and violating the unity of the God-man.

The Hypostatic Union was also viewed as [[Hypostatic union#Through history|one nature]] in [[Catholic Church|Roman Christianity]] by a minority around this time.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Olupona |first=Jacob K. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/839396781 |title=African Religions: A Very Short Introduction |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-19-979058-6 |location=Oxford |pages=90 |oclc=839396781}}</ref> Single-nature ideas such as [[Apollinarism]] and [[Eutychianism]] were taught to explain some of the seeming contradictions in Chalcedonian Christianity.{{Citation needed|date=February 2023}}

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