Third Council of Constantinople
council · 681 · Constantinople
Against the monothelete compromise that had bought forty years of false peace, the council of 680–681 confessed two natural wills and two natural energies in Christ, condemning the formula's advocates — Sergius, Cyrus, and Pope Honorius among them: the one pope a council anathematized by name.
The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills.
Monotheletism: the compromise of one will in Christ, imposed for unity with the lost eastern provinces.
Two natural wills and two energies confessed; the monothelete patriarchs anathematized — with Pope Honorius among them.
People
- Agatho legate
- Sergius I of Constantinople condemned
- George I of Constantinople presided
Documents
What it decided
- One will in Christ In Christ there is one will, and one theandric operation.
- Two wills and two operations In Christ there are two natural wills and two natural operations, without division, without change, without separation and without confusion, the human will following and not resisting the divine.
In the disputes
- The dispute over the wills of Christ A formula of union offered to the churches that had refused Chalcedon: grant two natures, but one will.
Wikipedia · OrthodoxWiki — Sixth Ecumenical Council · The Seven Ecumenical Councils — Constantinople III, a.d. 680-681 (NPNF II/14)