Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.31.1.3
»Peter Spoke Through Leo« (I) The Reception of The Dogmatic Letter to Flavian of Leo the Great at the Sessions of the Council of Chalcedon (1st – 3th Session, October 8 – 13, 451)
Mirko Mišković
orcid.org/0009-0000-8300-0724
Andrea Filić
orcid.org/0000-0002-1609-3972
; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
Leo the Great wrote The Letter to Flavian in 449 as a Christological sermon against Eutyches’ monophysite doctrine. It went through a difficult path from being completely ignored at the “Robber Synod” of Ephesus in 449 to unanimous acceptance, after certain disputes, at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. The aim of this paper is to present and analyze the reception of Leo’s Letter at the first five Chalcedonian sessions. For each session, we first provide general information and then examine the minutes from the session. The article will be published in two parts. The first three sessions are covered here. We show that in the first and second sessions, there was no specific discussion about the theological content of Leo’s Letter, but also that the fathers declared they considered it an extremely important Christological writing. At the third session, the letter was compared to the most important documents of orthodox Christology, whose teaching had to be agreed to.
Keywords
Leo the Great; Eutyches; The Council of Chalcedon (451); Christology; Dyophysitism; Monophysitism
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Publication date:
15.6.2023.
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