The Catechism in a Year (with Fr. Mike Schmitz)

Day 66: True God and True Man

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Mar 7, 2023
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True God and True Man

  • Jesus Christ is one person with two natures: divine and human.
  • The Church clarified this through councils, addressing heresies that denied either his humanity or divinity.
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Early Heresies

  • Early heresies often denied Christ's humanity rather than his divinity, like Gnosticism.
  • The Church affirmed Christ's divine sonship by nature, not adoption, against Paul of Samosata's claims.
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Council of Nicaea and Arianism

  • The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) clarified that Jesus is eternally begotten, not made, and of the same substance as the Father.
  • This refuted Arianism, which claimed Jesus was created and of a different substance.
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