The Doctrine of the Person of Christ in the Early Church

Conclusion

Remarkably, more than four centuries after the death of Christ, the church had withstood numerous heresies and internal rivalries to articulate the orthodox definition of the person of Christ at the Council of Chalcedon. Further developments in articulating this doctrine were to be done within the parameters laid down by the Council. As the Creed states, “Our Lord Jesus Christ is one and the same, that He is perfect in godhead and perfect in manhood, truly God and truly man…in two natures, unconfusedly, immutably, indivisibly, inseparably, the distinction of the two natures being preserved and concurring in one person.”