God the Son, Student Workbook, SW10

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(3) Mary didn’t bear God, but a man who was a means for God to reveal himself

b. His teachings seemed to suggest a split between two different beings in the person of Jesus

2. Eutychianism: Christ has one blended nature.

a. A leader of a monastery in Constantinople (ca. 375-454)

(1) He taught that after Jesus was born, he only possessed a single nature (not two natures in one person)

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(2) Jesus’ humanity blended with his deity and nearly obliterated it

(3) Unclear as to what this single, blended nature is: a confusing teaching

b. His teachings confuse the importance of the integrity of the two natures in one person in Jesus

3. The Council of Chalcedon, 451

a. Denounced ideas of Eutyches

b. Affirmed the two-nature declaration as orthodox

c. Mary was declared to be the “God-bearer” ( theotokos ) of God the Son, who became human.