This website will provide a thorough examination into the historical events, political tensions, and Christological controversy related to Chalcedon from a Coptic Orthodox perspective.
Focus
(1) The Christological teaching of the Antiochene and the Alexandrine ways of theological thinking (2) the Council of Ephesus in 431, which condemned Nestorius as a heretic (3) the Formulary of Reunion, by which in 433 St. Cyril of Alexandria, the leader of the Alexandrine party, and John of Antioch, the leader of the Antiochene party, arrived at a concordat (4) the Home Synod of Constantinople, which in 448 excommunicated Eutyches as a heretic and (5) the second Council of Ephesus in 449, which, having reinstated Eutyches based on an Orthodox confession, deposed his judges at Constantinople as well as a number of the leading men on the Antiochene side based on their refusal of St. Cyril's Anathemas (6) Council of Chalcedon proceedings, Tome of Leo and Christological formulas
Resourses
The site will also provide resources for further study and research such as:
That Christ is One by St. Cyril of AlexandriaThe Council of Chalcedon Re-Examined by V. C. Samuel
