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==Eutychianist view of Christ's nature==

==Eutychianist view of Christ's nature==

Eutychianism refers to a set of Christian theological doctrines derived from the ideas of Eutyches of Constantinople (c. 380 – c. 456). Eutychianism is a specific [[Christology]] having a particular understanding of how the human and the divine are related within the one person of Jesus Christ, an understanding rejected by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and major denominations of Protestantism, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalist.

Eutychianism refers to a set of Christian theological doctrines, derived from the ideas of Eutyches of Constantinople (c. 380 – c. 456), which were condemned at the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451. Eutychianism is a specific [[Christology]] having a particular understanding of how the human and the divine are related within the one person of Jesus Christ, an understanding rejected by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches, and major denominations of Protestantism, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalist.

One formulation of the doctrine of Eutychianism stresses the unity of Christ's nature to such an extent that Christ's divinity consumed his humanity as the ocean consumes a drop of vinegar. Eutyches maintained that Christ was '''''of''''' two natures in his [[Incarnation]], but not one '''''in''''' two natures in himself. Although more senior bishops and theologians sought to correct him, he insisted that the separate divine and human natures had been so united and blended in such a manner that although Jesus was ''homoousian'', one essence of being with the Father, he was not ''homoousian'' with man. Thus, God the Son was crucified in his divinity, but not in his humanity, which was totally united with his divinity in one nature.

One formulation of the doctrine of Eutychianism stresses the unity of Christ's nature to such an extent that Christ's divinity consumed his humanity as the ocean consumes a drop of vinegar. Eutyches maintained that Christ was '''''of''''' two natures in his [[Incarnation]], but not one '''''in''''' two natures in himself. Although more senior bishops and theologians sought to correct him, he insisted that the separate divine and human natures had been so united and blended in such a manner that although Jesus was ''homoousian'', one essence of being with the Father, he was not ''homoousian'' with man. Thus, God the Son was crucified in his divinity, but not in his humanity, which was totally united with his divinity in one nature.