The Three Chapters

Doctrinal · 553 · ecumenical

Justinian condemned three long-dead Antiochene writers to conciliate the churches that had refused Chalcedon. The East complied; the West read it as reopening a settled council, and Vigilius of Rome agreed, refused, agreed again and was held in Constantinople for eight years.

How it ended. The condemnations stand from 553, and the churches they were meant to win back were not won back.

Part of The division over Chalcedon.

How it ran

553 — Second Council of Constantinople (where it was settled). Anathematizes the three, and Theodore by name.

What was at issue

Two persons in Christ what was at issue

Who stood in it

Theodore of Mopsuestia accused in it

What was written

Fourteen Anathemas against the Three Chapters legislated in

After The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Constantinople II (553), the anathemas, anathema 12.