The Chalcedon Council of Bishops

Most christians now are catholics or protestants. They give priority to their own history, which is the story of the western latin speaking church. The issue at chalcedon was a complicated argument about the natures of jesus christ. Fully two thirds of the church refused to sign up to it - partly because they did not trust the emperor to do theology. So these refusnics founded their own churches, led by their own bishops. Their snooty enemies in the emperor's church gave them condescending names, nestorians and monophicites. Because those s are condescending, it is worth replacing them with admittedly clumsy labels, which these christians