Talk:Chalcedonian Definition

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A Definition Not a Creed[edit]

Notwithstanding that this looks (a bit) like the Nicene Creed, it is the general practice to refer to it as the Chalcedonian Definition, on the basis that the creed remained that of Nicea. A net search on "Chalcedonian Creed" mostly brings up encycpopedias that are derived from Wikipedia. So the title of this article is wrong. MnJWalker 20:35, 15 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Yup. Srnec 18:26, 9 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

The complete text[edit]

The article does not give the complete text, but only one paragraph from it. The bishops at Chalcedon, when consulted about the Definition as few years later (in 457-8, see the Codex Encyclius in Acta Conciliorum Oecumenicorum, ed. E. Schwartz, II.5, 24-98), supported the Definition, but made very little reference to this paragraph. For them the real heart of the Definition was in its earlier sections, where it confirmed the Nicene Creed and acclaimed Cyril of Alexandria as its authoritative interpreter. -- Richard Meredith, 12.2.2012 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Richard Meredith (talk • contribs) 13:17, 12 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

'coming together into'/ 'concurring in'[edit]

Notice the difference between 'coming together into one person and one hypostasis' in the introduction to this article and 'concurring in one person and subsistence' in the full translation given below. The first is right: the meaning of the Greek is not that 'the person and hypostasis/subsistence' is the locale where the two natures are united, but that the natures united to form 'one person and hypostasis', the word 'person' not having its modern meaning of a rational subject, but meaning simply 'one real entity' (see Lampe, Patristic Greek Lexicon, on 'prosopon'). Richard Meredith 12.2.2012

Amended per above. Laurel Lodged (talk) 17:36, 10 June 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"Coptic Church of Alexandria"[edit]

Did the Church of Alexandria refer to itself in the 5th century as the "Coptic Church of Alexandria"? It seems to me that using this phrase, which is the title of the Wiki article, implies that there was more than one Church in Alexandria at the time. Could we just say "the Church of Alexandria"? Leaving the link to the Wiki article "Coptic Church of Alexandria" --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 17:00, 12 March 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Split proposal[edit]

Please see: Talk:Chalcedonian_Christianity. Chicbyaccident (talk) 09:12, 13 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Nicene Creed[edit]

§ Context: "The Council first solemnly ratified the Nicene Creed adopted in 385..."

Is the year 385 a typo? Should it say 325, the year of the Council of Nicaea? Avians (talk) 17:31, 3 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Dyophysite section[edit]

This appears to be an error. It currently equates dyophysitism and Monophysitism. I do not know what the author intended, but this is clearly incorrect. Rather than guess what was intended, I would hope the author would edit it. Waynenoogen (talk) 16:21, 9 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]