Two persons in Christ
Doctrine · On Christ · from c. 428
In Christ there are two persons as well as two natures, conjoined in a union of will and of honour.
The proposition Ephesus set aside. The dataset keeps both readings of who held it, because the received charge and the man's own words do not agree.
Held it
- 400 — Theodore of Mopsuestia (Holds). Is named a century and a half after his death as the source of the teaching. Attributed by the Second Council of Constantinople. The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Constantinople II (553), the anathemas, anathema 12
- 428 — Nestorius (Holds). Is charged with dividing Christ into two persons joined by dignity and will. Attributed by the Council of Ephesus. The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Ephesus (431), the Twelve Anathemas of Cyril, anathema 3
Refused it
- 431 — The Council of Ephesus (Anathematizes). Anathematizes anyone who divides the persons after the union, joining them by dignity or authority and not by a union of natures. The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Ephesus (431), the Twelve Anathemas of Cyril, anathema 3
- 450 — Nestorius (Rejects). Denies in his own defence that he ever taught two persons, and says he confesses one Christ in two natures. The Christian Tradition 1: The Emergence of the Catholic Tradition (100–600) · Pelikan, vol. 1, ch. 5, on the Bazaar of Heracleides
In the disputes
- The Nestorian controversy A quarrel about a title of Mary that was a quarrel about her Son.
- The Three Chapters Justinian condemned three long-dead Antiochene writers to conciliate the churches that had refused Chalcedon.
First stated in this form after The Seven Ecumenical Councils (NPNF series 2 vol. 14) · Ephesus (431), the Twelve Anathemas of Cyril, anathema 3.