Editing Christ (title) (section)

==Christology==
{{Main|Christology}}
Christology, literally "the understanding of Christ",{{sfn|Ehrman|2014|p=108}} is the study of the nature (person) and work (role in salvation) of [[Jesus in Christianity]].{{sfn|Ehrman|2014|p=171}}{{sfn|O'Collins|2009|p=1-3}}{{sfn|Ramm|1993|p=15}}{{sfn|Bird|Evans|Gathercole|2014|p=134, n.5}} It studies Jesus Christ's humanity and divinity, and the relation between these two aspects;{{sfn|Ehrman|2014|p=ch.6-9}} and the role he plays in [[Salvation in Christianity|salvation]].

From the second to the fifth centuries, the relation of the human and divine nature of Christ was a major focus of debates in the [[Early centers of Christianity|early church]] and at the [[first seven ecumenical councils]]. The [[Council of Chalcedon]] in 451 issued a formulation of the [[hypostatic union]] of the two natures of Christ, one human and one divine, "united with neither confusion nor division".{{sfn|Davis|1990|p=342}} Most of the major branches of Western Christianity and [[Eastern Orthodoxy]] subscribe to this formulation,{{sfn|Davis|1990|p=342}} while many branches of [[Oriental Orthodox Churches]] reject it,{{sfn|Armentrout|Boak Slocum|2005|p=81}}{{sfn|Espín|Nickoloff|2007|p=217}}{{sfn|Beversluis|2000|p=21–22}} subscribing to [[miaphysitism]].

According to the ''[[Summa Theologica]]'' of [[Thomas Aquinas]], in the singular case of Jesus, the word ''Christ'' has a twofold meaning, which stands for "both the Godhead anointing and the manhood anointed". It derives from the twofold human-divine nature of Christ ([[dyophysitism]]): the [[Son of man (Christianity)|Son of man]] is anointed in consequence of His incarnated flesh, as well as the Son of God is anointing in consequence of the "[[Godhead in Christianity|Godhead]] which He has with the Father" (ST ''III'', q. 16, a. 5).<ref>{{cite book | author = Thomas Aquinas | translator = Fathers of the English Dominican Province | url = https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/TP/TP016.html | title = English translation of the "Summa Theologica", with Latin text | publisher = [[Benziger Bros]] | year = 1947 | access-date = 26 July 2019 | website = dhspriory.org | language = la, en | archive-url = https://archive.today/20141021180357/https://dhspriory.org/thomas/summa/TP/TP016.html | archive-date = 21 October 2014 | url-status = live}}, with a quotation form the Epistle to Palestinians of [[Pope Leo I]]</ref>