Word: chalcedon
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...Egypt, and recalls the days when Alexandria was a rival to Rome as Christendom's foremost city. But the Copts' Monophysite theology (which holds that Christ has only a single nature in which the human and divine are blended) was eventually condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and with the emergence of Islam, Coptic Christianity virtually went underground for centuries...
...footnote to the Sept. 24 article on the Vatican makes the statement that "Roman Catholic theologians believe that the Monophysite theory can lead to the destruction of the very basis of Christianity . . ." Not only Roman, but all orthodox Christianity-Eastern, Anglican and Protestant as weil-follows the Council of Chalcedon in rejecting Monophysitism...
...doctrine on which Christians were divided 1,500 years ago and which is still held by some 4,000,000 Christians in Ethiopia, Egypt and Armenia. According to the Monophysites, Christ has only one nature-the divine. But the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ruled that Christ has not one but two natures-human and divine. Both are completely united in Christ, making Him both God and man. Roman Catholic theologians believe that the Monophysite theory can lead to the destruction of the very basis of Christianity, i.e., man's redemption through Christ's suffering on earth, since...
...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...
From the village of Chalcedon, on the Asiatic shore, Gregory VII crossed over to Phanar in a caïque, accompanied by the Archbishops of Brusa and New Caesarea. Where the marble steps of the Ecumenical palace go down to the waters of the Bosphorus, he was met by the Metropolitans of Nicaea and of Cyzicus. Taking his arms they led him to the palace gate. The chief secretary of the Holy Synod read him the canon of election. The Archbishop of Caesarea gave him the pastoral staff...