The religious controversies centered on the two natures of Christ. The Nestorians argued that Christ had two separate natures, one human and one divine, in the same person, but not commingled. Monophysites, by contrast, claimed that Christ’s two natures were fully combined into one. Finally, the Chalcedonians maintained a middle-of-the road position that Christ was completely human and completely divine, one and the same Christ having two natures without confusion or change, division, or separation. This probably sounds like complete gibberish to many readers, and it does to me. It is hard to
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