October 451 A.D. 1st Meeting of the Council of Chalcedon
October 451 A.D. 1 st Meeting of the Council of Chalcedon No author. “1 st Meeting of the Council of Chalcedon.” Christianity.com. http://www.christianity.com/church/church-history/timeline/301-600/1st-meeting-of-the-council-of-chalcedon-11629700.html . Accessed 30 May 2014. When Jesus asked his disciples, "Who do people say that I am?" he received a multitude of answers. Some said he was John the Baptist, some said he was Elijah or Jeremiah or another one of the prophets. The disciple Peter came up with the correct answer when he said, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." The early Christians accepted Peter's confession, but they had many different ideas of exactly what it meant for Jesus to be the Christ. What was Jesus' real nature and person like? How was he related to God and to the Father? To what degree was he truly human? There were many debates over these issues in the fourth through the sixth centuries of the church. ...