Council of Chalcedon
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Oct 16, 2026
Paul GondreauGUEST
This met in the year 381.
Paul GondreauGUEST
And the second was the Council of Chalcedon, which met in the year 451.
Paul GondreauGUEST
So, Constantinople I, this affirmed Christ's full humanity in response to the heresy that denied that Christ had a rational soul.
Paul GondreauGUEST
So that might sound bizarre to us.
Paul GondreauGUEST
And it's the church's clearest attestation to date outside of the New Testament of Christ's full humanity.
Paul GondreauGUEST
Since, against Apollinaris, to be human is, of course, to have, in this case, a rational soul or mind.
Paul GondreauGUEST
So when we turn to Chalcedon, In 451, this marks the high point of the ancient church's efforts to proclaim the full truth of Christ's humanity and his divinity.
Paul GondreauGUEST
Chalcedon responded to the heresy of monophysitism.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
I'm finishing my PhD, uh, in, uh, in patristic, in understanding of the papal authority during Eutychian controversy.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
So I'm going in depth about, you know, this Council of Chalcedon, uh, s- Second Ephesus, and all this controversy.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
And so, so yeah, it's, it's busy time for me, but we've got help.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
I'm still doing [laughs] everything, so.
William AlbrechtHOST
They should.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
Okay.
Pawel GlowackiGUEST
Chalcedon, no.
William AlbrechtHOST
Yeah.
Dustin SmithHOST
Well, I'm not exactly convinced.
Dustin SmithHOST
because Paul goes on in the very next verse, and he speaks of Christ being Son of God with power according to the Spirit, okay? Are we to assume that Jesus was born according to the flesh, but he was designated as the powerful Son of God according to the Spirit, resulting in the doctrine of two natures as it is prescribed in the Council of Chalcedon in the year 451? Well, in this week's episode, we're going to look very closely at Romans 1, verse 3, in order to see what precisely Paul said and meant.
Dustin SmithHOST
We will talk about the birth of the Son of God and how it has absolutely nothing to do with a pre-existent Son coming down out of heaven and assuming a human nature.
Dustin SmithHOST
We're also going to discuss the significance of Jesus' post-resurrection exaltation, which is a promotion that the true God gave to Jesus when Jesus was highly exalted.
Dustin SmithHOST
It says, according to the flesh.
Dustin SmithHOST
And even the 1985 New Jerusalem Bible says, in terms of of human nature.
Dustin SmithHOST
So if you have any of these translations, yeah, you're going to conclude that this son of God assumed a human nature at his birth, and you're going to say, yeah, it sounds like the doctor of the two natures that I read in the Council of Chalcedon.
Dustin SmithHOST
But what does the text actually say? So let's begin with the most important figure, which is the identity of the God who is mentioned at the In Romans 1, verse 1, it talks about the gospel of God, talks about God's gospel.
Nathan JacobsHOST
So that's the Great Schism.
Nathan JacobsHOST
But there is another schism internal to the East prior to this, and this takes place in response to the Council of Chalcedon.
Nathan JacobsHOST
So within that first thousand years of the church, there were seven ecumenical councils.
Nathan JacobsHOST
And these ecumenical councils were essentially exactly that, councils that gathered together the whole house, as it were.
Nathan JacobsHOST
Now, this fourth one is what occasions the schism internal to the East that is referred to as the Oriental Orthodox or as the non-Chalcedonians.
Nathan JacobsHOST
And I trust, given this historical context, The meaning of that title is obvious.
Nathan JacobsHOST
These were churches that were resistant to the Council of Chalcedon.
Nathan JacobsHOST
They did not trust it.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
So he had a problem with that, and in trying to solve the problem, because again, these things weren't fleshed out at that time, he overcorrected, and he basically Came up with an idea that, you know, Christ was divided in, in, in a way of sorts.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
And so this is what led to these various councils, like the Council of Chalcedon, where the doctrine of the incarnation was actually articulated.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
Christ is one person with two natures.
Tudor AlexanderHOST
Don't divide the person and don't confuse the natures.
Mark GilbertHOST
Yes
Camden BuceyGUEST
... something can be, uh, theoretically something can be infallible in 451, like the Council of Chalcedon.
Mark GilbertHOST
Yeah.
Mark GilbertHOST
Mm.
Brock HollettGUEST
We only need the eternal logos," right? Because the body, in their view, is material, and the material is not holy.
Brock HollettGUEST
The mater- But no, Christ, we know, and this is the teaching of the Council of Chalcedon, right? This-- But it's biblical.
Brock HollettGUEST
It's the idea that, that the second person of the Holy Trinity, eternally uncreated God, stepped into time and space, whatever that, whatever, you know, our minds can handle there.
Brock HollettGUEST
He, he came in, intersected in time and space, and he took on the creature, that he himself deified the created order of man and everything that we are without-- except without sin, right? Everything.
David AndersHOST
But you run into some problems, some internal problems with Orthodox ecclesiology.
David AndersHOST
In my mind, I mean, one of them is, well, which church do you think is the Orthodox? And what do you mean, Anders? Well, I mean, there's multiple claimants to that mantle, right? I mean, the majority of the Orthodox in the world are what we'd call Byzantine Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, Greek Orthodox, and so forth that affirm the Council of Chalcedon.
David AndersHOST
But you have a pretty sizable minority that don't affirm the Council of Chalcedon, the non-Chalcedonian Orthodox.
David AndersHOST
Then you have the Assyrian Church of the East.
David AndersHOST
They also consider themselves to be Orthodox.
speaker_0HOST
You didn't have a pope who was able to wade into political affairs as he pleased, for example.
speaker_0HOST
The head of the church in the Eastern Empire was the Patriarch of Constantinople, who, according to the Council of Chalcedon, was second only to the Bishop of Rome, also known as the Pope, in the Christian hierarchy.
speaker_0HOST
However, the Patriarchs of Constantinople were always reliant on the Eastern emperors.
speaker_0HOST
Emperors could and did depose patriarchs.
8 MINS LATER
speaker_0HOST
If you wanna learn more about the intricacies of the Christological debate, listen to my episode called Nicaea to Chalcedon.
speaker_0HOST
Basilicus was a Monophysite.
speaker_0HOST
He believed that Christ had one divine nature, while Verina agreed with the ruling of the Council of Chalcedon, which stated that Christ had two natures, a human nature and a divine nature, but that these natures were in full communion with each other, and that they couldn't be separated.
speaker_0HOST
Another theory is that Basilicus, one of Basilicus' generals actually had Verina's lover Patriciux executed, and we do know that this did happen, uh, Patriciux was executed by one of Basilicus' top guys.
Dave JenkinsHOST
The Nicene Creed helped articulate biblical teaching about Christ and the Trinity.
Dave JenkinsHOST
The Council of Chalcedon, the Chalcedon Creed, helps articulate the biblical doctrine of Christ's person.
Dave JenkinsHOST
Reformation Confessions provide careful summaries of truths that Christians defended at great cost.
Dave JenkinsHOST
These documents do not possess Scripture's authority, but they can serve as guardrails.
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