Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, the Doctrine of Christ, part four.

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In our study of the doctrine of the person of Christ, we've come to the Council of Chalcedon, which in 451 promulgated

a statement aimed at settling the controversy between the Alexandrian and the Antiochian

Schools of Christology. And I want to review with you again this statement before making some comments on it and

proceeding.

The statement can be found printed on your outlines on page two, so I would encourage you

to read along with me as I read aloud. Here's what the council declared.

We 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 soul and

body, consubstantial homo Uzias, with the Father according to the Godhead and consubstantial homo Uzias with us according to the manhood

like us in all things except 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, Theodocas, according to the manhood. One and the same,

Christ, Son, Lord, only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures

without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.

The difference of the natures being by no means taken away because of the union,

but rather the property of each nature being preserved and concurring in one person, prosopon,

and one subsistence, whoupostasis, not divided or separated into two persons,

but one and the same son and only begotten God, word, Lord Jesus Christ.

The Chalcedonian settlement is a ringing endorsement of diophosite or two natures Christology.

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