dreamsillustration.com

If the fathers of the 4th century quarreled completed the relations betwixt God the Father and God the Son, those of the 5th century confronted the trouble of defining the kinship of the two natures, the human and the divine inside God the Son, Jesus Christ. The Christological controversy stemmed from the rival doctrines of Apollinaris (Word-Flesh) and Theodore of Mopsuestia (Word-Man), representatives of the rival schools of Alexandria and Antioch respectively. Word-Flesh Christology in general held that the divine and human being natures were united indistinguishably. This lone divine nature (extreme Monophysitism) after the Incarnation, was powerfully supported by Eutcyches. Word-Flesh Christology was not in consonance with Word-Man Christology since the latter taught the 2 natures co-existed separately in Christ. Cyril of Antioch condemned the extreme Antiochene Christology learnt by Nestorius observing the man Jesus an available human being beside the Divine Word. Pope Leo’’s Tome (response to Flavian, the archbishop of Constantinople in 449) talk to these opposing perspectives by avoiding their extremities as reflected in the teachings of Eutyches and Nestorius. He noted that Christ was fully man and fully divine, 2 natures united in single person. Mary conceived and offered birth to Him with no the demise of her virginity. The Tome played a very important role at the Council of Chalcedon (451) which was convoked to resolve this doctrinal controversy. Leo’’s reckon was accepted as the orthodox doctrine of the church. His statement of the site of the bishop of Rome in the church well-known doctrinal ground for the papacy. Although he was not pleased with Canon 28 which dignified Constantinople, Church history his reckon that Jesus was a sole individual with 2 natures has stayed the average formulation of the doctrine of Christ in most branches of Christianity.