HIST-211 Lecture 57: Council of Chalcedon
23 Sep 2020
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In 451, the council of chalcedon addressed the fallout from ephesus by clarifying what was actually going on in jesus. The answer is that christ had two natures in one hypostasis. Jesus was not 50% god or 50% human, but 1005 god and 100% human in one hypostatic union: coptic christianity. Many coptic using christians in alexandria broke with the latins and greeks. In egypt, they maintained one nature or miaphysite view of christianity until the 21st century. Independent minded patriarchs presided in alexandria, antioch, rome, and constantinople: greeks and latins. Rome and constantinople would not split until the schism of 1054. In late antiquity and early middle ages, there was still continuity: the latin fathers. Four thinkers arose as future authorities: ambrose, jerome, augustine, gregory the great, ambrose. Augustine was never that good at working with greek. Unlike ambrose, he went from west to east.
