Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.31823/d.31.2.1
The Dogmatic Letter to Flavian of Leo The Great at Sessions of the Council of Chalcedon (4th – 5th Session, October 17 and 22, 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. This article, written in two parts, presents and analyzes 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 fourth and fifth sessions are covered here. It is shown that at the fourth session, the fathers solemnly expressed their agreement with Leo’s Letter, and they considered it one of the fundamental documents of orthodox Christology. At the fifth session, during the discussions on the Chalcedonian Dogmatic Definition, Leo's Letter played an important role in the final formulation of Christological Diophysitism. The Appendix contains the first complete translation of The Dogmatic Letter to Flavian in the Croatian language.
Keywords
Leo the Great; Eutyches; Council of Chalcedon (451); Christology; Dyophysitism; Monophysitism
Hrčak ID:
307205
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Publication date:
16.8.2023.
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