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Meaning of "chalcedonian"

Chalcedonian (adjective): Relating to or characteristic of the Christian denomination that accepts the doctrines of the Council of Chalcedon. This term is primarily used in a religious or historical context
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  • Relating to the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD).
  • Accepting the Christological definition dogmatized at Chalcedon.
  • One who accepts the definition given at the Council of Chalcedon of how the divine and human relate in the person of Jesus Christ.

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He saw to it that the Chalcedonian missionaries were delayed.
Thus we need not rehearse those chapters which deal with the Nicene and Chalcedonian formulas.
He apparently became Chalcedonian at this time.
Various eastern Churches think that he may have deviated from the Chalcedonian doctrine.
Tiberius reacted by raising a Chalcedonian brother of Mundhir to the Ghassanid kingship.
He refused to accept the violence in order to impose the Chalcedonian Orthodoxy.
The Chalcedonian Creed agreed with Theodore that there were two natures in the Incarnation.
Sisebut was known for his devout piety to Chalcedonian Christianity.
His hymns point to Chalcedonian Christology, and to a high interpretation of the sacraments.
Theodora was her baptismal name and marks her conversion to Chalcedonian Christianity.
The churches were restored to the Chalcedonian clergy, and the remaining Arians suffered persecution.
The Chalcedonian understanding is that Christ is " in two natures, full humanity and full divinity.
Placidia was a devout Chalcedonian Christian.
Gregory helped to bring about a reconciliation between the two, and Pyrrhus re-embraced the Chalcedonian position.
Justin reversed this trend and confirmed the Chalcedonian doctrine, openly condemning the Monophysites.

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The Chalcedonian Creed, regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus, is adopted.
Hermenegild was converted to Chalcedonian Christianity.
Second, the Chalcedonian Creed also insists on a distinction between Jesus ' two natures.
Recent years have brought about a degree of rapprochement between Chalcedonian Christians and the Oriental Orthodox.
The Chalcedonian Creed said that Jesus was human, and therefore fallible.
In this way, the Reformed and Chalcedonian Christology was helpful as an analogy.
For this reason, the Assyrian Church has never approved the Chalcedonian definition.
Those who did not accept the Chalcedonian Christology now call themselves non-Chalcedonian.
Peter the Iberian, a Georgian prince, also strongly opposed the Chalcedonian Creed.
What if you are wrong? The Chalcedonian Creed said that Jesus was human, and therefore fallible.
First Persia conquered parts of Byzantium, which were populated mostly by Monophysite and Chalcedonian Christians.
Justin reversed this trend and Justinian i the Chalcedonian doctrine, openly condemning the Monophysites.
Third, the Chalcedonian Creed affirms that Jesus is only one person.
The Patriarchate of Antioch was then divided between a Chalcedonian and non-Chalcedonian communion.
The resulting statement, called the Chalcedonian Definition, guarded against Apollinarianism, Nestorianism, and Eutychianism.
Monophisites and the Fourth Ecumenical Council ; ; the significance of the Chalcedonian Definition 14.
Position vs. Chalcedonian creed.
By the year 510, the Ghassanids were no longer Miaphysite, but Chalcedonian.
Samuel was also beaten by Cyrus, the Chalcedonian patriarch of Alexandria.
He was the first Chalcedonian to be elected Patriarch since 482.
Monophysite, and one a Chalcedonian heretic i . e.

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