Constantinople II — Fifth Ecumenical Council
The council clarifies that the one person of Christ is the divine Word and addresses the Three Chapters controversy.
People
- Justinian I
Primary sources
The council declares:
The fourth anathema identifies Jesus Christ, one of the Trinity, as the single personal subject of the incarnation.
there is only one Person, to wit: our Lord Jesus Christ, one of the Holy Trinity
Passage context and translation
The fourth anathema rejects accounts of the incarnation that leave the Word and the man Jesus as two personal subjects; its positive clause names the one personal subject.
Before the excerpt
the union of God the Word is made with the flesh animated by a reasonable and living soul, and that such union is made synthetically and hypostatically
After the excerpt
As a matter of fact the word ‘union’ has many meanings