1The Chalcedonian definition: one and the same Christ, perfect in divinity and in humanity, made known in two natures without confusion, change, division, or separation, in one person.
About this work
Author
Anonymous
Attribution
authentic · Adopted at the sixth session (25 October 451). Only the definition proper is staged; the recital of the earlier creeds and the closing decree that frame it in the acts are not.
Standing
Received by the Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant traditions. A synod of bishops in communion with the church of its day.
Date
451 (25 Oct)
Written at
Chalcedon, Bithynia
Language
Greek
Genre
canon/council
Reference system
the definition as one section (no divisions in the edition); text from Hahn (1897), §146, not the full acts
SBL abbreviation
Conc. Chalced. Def.Not yet checked
Text from
August Hahn, Bibliothek der Symbole und Glaubensregeln der alten Kirche, 3rd ed., ed. G. Ludwig Hahn (Breslau: Morgenstern, 1897), OCR of the archive.org scan (BibliothekDerSymboleUndGlaubensregel); Greek text after Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio (Printed edition in the public domain; digital OCR text from archive.org (public domain))
Critical editions
Eduard Schwartz, ed., Acta conciliorum oecumenicorum (Berlin: de Gruyter, 1914–; cited only, not reproduced); Giuseppe Alberigo et al., eds., Conciliorum oecumenicorum decreta (Bologna: Istituto per le scienze religiose, 1973; cited only); Mansi, Sacrorum conciliorum nova et amplissima collectio 4–7 (Florence/Venice 1759–) (cited, not reproduced)