C H R I S T O L O G Y

(THEO 2)

OLIVER D. IGLESIA
C H R I S T O L O G Y
(THEO 2)

HYPOSTATIC UNION
 OUTLINE:
• THE DIFFERENT HERESIES CONCERNING THE NATURE OF CHRIST
• THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON
• THE HYPOSTATIC UNION
• JESUS AS FULLY HUMAN
• JESUS AS FULLY DIVINE
• THE CHALCEDONIAN CHRISTOLOGY
WHO IS JESUS CHRIST FOR YOU?

• DO YOU SEE JESUS AS A HUMAN BEING? OR DO YOU SEE HIM AS DIVINE?

(THINK OF IT)
“Jesus is man ONLY” “Jesus is God ONLY”

 Arianism  Docetism
 Ebionitism  Gnosticism
 Subordinationism  Apollinarianism
 Adoptionism  Monothelitism

H e r e s y
Heresy means “false doctrine”.
THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON
• THE FOURTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
• OCCURRED IN 451 AD.
 THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON

• HYPOSTATIC UNION WAS ESTABLISHED AT THE COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON DURING 451

AD.

• CYRILOF ALEXANDRIA PROPOSED THE SO – CALLED HYPOSTATIC UNION TO

DESCRIBE THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE TWO NATURE OF JESUS CHRIST.

• MOREOVER, POPE LEO I SUPPORTED THE IDEA OF CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA FOLLOWED

BY THE AFFIRMATION OF THE SYNOD TO ADOPT THIS AS A FORMAL DEFINITION.
 WHAT IS HYPOSTATIC UNION?

• THE HYPOSTATIC UNION IS ALMOST UNIVERSALLY DEFINED AS THE UNITY OF

THE DIVINE NATURE AND THE HUMAN NATURE OF JESUS CHRIST IN HIS ONE
PERSON.

• FROM THE GREEK WORD HYPOSTASIS, WHICH MEANS “A SUBSISTING

INDIVIDUAL”.

• THE UNION OF DIVINE AND HUMAN NATURES IN THE SUBSISTING PERSON OF THE
SON.
JESUS AS FULLY HUMAN
JESUS AS FULLY DIVINE
Human Nature Divine Nature

Christ is:
-In two natures
-Without confusion
-Without contradiction
-Without division
-Without separation
WHAT IS THE CHALCEDONIAN CHRISTOLOGY?

“ … ONE AND THE SAME CHRIST, SON, LORD, ONLY – BEGOTTEN, RECOGNIZED IN TWO
NATURES, WITHOUT CONFUSION, WITHOUT CHANGE, WITHOUT DIVISION, WITHOUT
SEPARATION; THE DISTINCTION OF NATURES BEING IN NO WAY ANNULLED BY THE
UNION, BUT RATHER THE CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH NATURE BEING PRESERVED AND
COMING TOGETHER TO FORM ONE PERSON AND SUBSISTENCE, NOT AS PARTED OR
SEPARATED INTO TWO PERSONS, BUT ONE AND THE SAME SON AND ONLY – BEGOTTEN
GOD THE WORD, LORD JESUS CHRIST; EVEN AS THE PROPHETS FROM EARLIEST TIMES
SPOKE OF HIM, AND OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF TAUGHT US, AND THE CREED OF
THE FATHERS HAS HANDED DOWN TO US.”

DEFINITION OF CHALCEDON, 451 AD

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