Word: chalcedon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Coptic theology is much like Greek Orthodox. Exception: the nature of Christ's divinity. Copts hold that Christ does not have a "double nature" (human and divine), but a "single nature" in which human and divine are blended. The Council of Chalcedon (A.D 451) condemned the doctrine as heresy, and thus cut the Copts from the main body of early Christians...