Chalcedonian
- adjective
- /ˌkæl.sɪˈdoʊ.ni.ən/
- Formal
- The later Georgian Life turns the story's hero into a Chalcedonian figure, given Georgia's acceptance of Chalcedonian orthodoxy in early medieval times.
- Chalcedonian orthodoxy
Examples
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Fourth, various and different Christological expressions were allowed, so long as these were understood in an orthodox manner, that is, in accordance with "Chalcedonian Cyrillianism" or "Cyrillian Chalcedonianism."
Academic text (1991) -
While theologians and church historians have often ascribed a more specifically theological significance to Constantinople II, they have also frequently interpreted it as representing, in one way or another, a movement away from Chalcedonian orthodoxy.
Academic text (1991) -
Jesus' humanity comprises but a single pole of the Chalcedonian bipolarity, the mystery of the Incarnation: God present with us.
Academic text (1994) -
The later Georgian Life turns the story's hero into a Chalcedonian figure, given Georgia's acceptance of Chalcedonian orthodoxy in early medieval times.
Academic text (2007) -
Second, the Leonine-Chalcedonian Christological terminology was also reaffirmed, while a heretical tendency that had been and could be associated with it was also rejected.
Academic text (1991) -
The Chalcedonian formula makes affirmations (emphasized below) that seem clearly incompatible with Haight's Spirit Christology:
Academic text (1992) -
This straightforward account of the christological forms should not be misunderstood as a proto-Chalcedonian theology of the hypostatic union. Christ is not discussed according to his human and divine natures, but rather according to the "form" of a servant and the "form" of God.
Academic text (2007) -
They did not regard the Chalcedonian Definition, then, as replacing either Cyril's letters or Leo's Tome, but as a conciliar attempt to express the Church's mind in such a way as to be loyal to both Cyril and Leo.
Academic text (1991) -
The Chalcedonian definition states that Christ is both fully God and fully man.
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Many Christian denominations adhere to the Chalcedonian doctrines regarding the nature of Jesus.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Chalcedonian comes from the old city Chalcedon, where a major church meeting called the Council of Chalcedon was held in 451. So Chalcedonian refers to the 'church ideas' or rules that were set at that meeting.