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Seminary-level teaching for anyone who wants it. Each class will be taught on video by Andrew Assad from the Fathers and the councils, with its transcript and every source it reads from, credited. None is recorded yet; each one links here when its video is up.

Who Is Christ? Chalcedon and the Coptic Church

In 451 a council at Chalcedon divided the Church over how to speak of one Christ who is both God and man. The Coptic Church did not accept it, and still confesses with St. Cyril “one incarnate nature of God the Word.” How that happened, read from the councils and the Fathers themselves.

  1. Why a council from 451 still divides ChristiansClass 1 · coming
  2. The words that carry the weightClass 2 · coming
  3. St. Cyril, Nestorius and the TheotokosClass 3 · coming
  4. Peace in 433Class 4 · coming
  5. The Second Council of Ephesus, 449Class 5 · coming
  6. Chalcedon, 451Class 6 · coming
  7. After ChalcedonClass 7 · coming
  8. One faith in different words?Class 8 · coming

New classes go up on YouTube and appear here with their transcript and sources.