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    Monophysitism, Miaphysitism, Nestorianism, and Oriental Church History

    This thread is split from the thread "Where are the Trinitarian and Christological Boundaries", and with a similar idea in mind as "How to View the Christian East Between 780-2025". I have been exposed to two differing accounts of the Chalcedonian Controversy. The first - claims that the whole...
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    • #true church armenian orthodox chalcedon chalcedonian christ's human nature christology coptic eastern orthodoxy ecumenical ethiopian orthodox false church gavin ortlund heresy incarnation miaphysite monophysite neatorian nestorius oriental orthodox tawahedo
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    • Forum: Theological Forum
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    How to View the Christian East Between 780-2025

    This thread is split from my previous thread, "Where are the Trinitarian and Christological Boundaries", and particularly some of the longer quotes from books contained up to Post #21. It also references the discussion on the 2005 thread "Doctrine of Eastern Orthodox Church", particularly posts...
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    • #true church chrysostom cyril lucarius eastern heterodox church eastern heterodoxy eastern orthodoxy ecumenical false church gavin ortlund greek orthodoxy roman catholicism russian orthodoxy synod of jerusalem
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    • Forum: Theological Forum
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    Where are the Trinitarian and Christological Boundaries?

    How do we define trinitarian and christological errors as heresy? As damnable? Those who hold them as wolves? As being outside the faith? Are the boundaries strictly theological or also ones of attitude, context, consistency and soteriological implication? How harshly do we define the following...
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    • #true church boundaries chalcedon christology communication of properties eastern heterodox church false church heresy heretic heretics lutheranism nestorianism nicea oriental orthodox reformed heretics roman baptism trinity
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    • Forum: Theological Forum
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    The Ordination of Women, the Marks of the True Church, and Validity of Ordinations

    Can a church that ordains women to the ministry be called a true church? If all else was still in order - would these ordinations alone render it lacking in the mark of discipline? In a somewhat related question, what of ordinations made, even in part, by female officers? Would that calling be...
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    • #pcusa #true church #women's ordination
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Church Order
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