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Symbol Of Chalcedon

The Symbol of Chalcedon is a formula of faith dating from 451.

He was adopted by the Fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon. It defines common hypostatic two natures in one Christ expressed in the following excerpt:

"Next, therefore the holy Fathers, we all unanimously teach that we confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in divinity and perfect in the same humanity, the same truly God and truly man (combined) of a reasonable soul and body, consubstantial with the Father as to his divinity and consubstantial with us according to humanity, just like us except sin, before the ages begotten of the Father as to his divinity, and the last days the same (led) for us and for our salvation from the Virgin Mary, Mother of God in humanity, one same Christ, Son of God, the only begotten, acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division and without separation, the difference of the two natures being by no means removed because of the union, ownership of a different nature and rather being saved and contributing to one person and one hypostasis, a Christ nor does splitting dividing into two, but one and the same Son, only begotten, God the Word, Lord Jesus Christ. "

But the symbol of Chalcedon immediately creates divisions: Christians of Egypt ( Coptic ), Syria and Ethiopia, strongly attached to the Monophysite (one kind) refuse this new symbol.