Council of Chalcedon

===Confession of Chalcedon===
[[File:Nuremberg_chronicles_f_138r_1.jpg|thumb|Council of Chalcedon in the [[Nuremberg Chronicle]] ]]
{{Main article|Chalcedonian Definition}}
The Confession of Chalcedon provides a clear statement on the two natures of Christ, human and divine:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.earlychurchtexts.com/main/chalcedon/chalcedonian_definition.shtml |title=Chalcedonian Definition |website=Earlychurchtexts.com |access-date=2016-11-01}}</ref>

{{blockquote|We, then, following the holy Fathers, all with one consent, teach people to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable [rational] soul and body; consubstantial [co-essential] with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the Manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of God, according to the Manhood; one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; (ἐν δύο φύσεσιν ἀσυγχύτως, ἀτρέπτως, ἀδιαιρέτως, ἀχωρίστως – ''in duabus naturis inconfuse, immutabiliter, indivise, inseparabiliter'') the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person (''prosopon'') and one Subsistence (''hypostasis''), not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten God (μονογενῆ Θεόν), the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning [have declared] concerning Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Fathers has handed down to us.}}

The full text of the definition reaffirms the decisions of the [[Council of Ephesus]] and the pre-eminence of the [[Nicene Creed|Creed of Nicea]] (325).{{Efn|Further definitions of the Council of Constantinople (381) can be found on [[wikisource:Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume XIV/The Fourth Ecumenical Council/The Definition of Faith|Wikisource]].}} It also canonises as authoritative two of [[Cyril of Alexandria]]'s letters and the [[Tome of Leo]] written against [[Eutyches]] and sent to [[Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople]] in 449.