Eutyches and the Tome of Leo Explained | Church History

On the way to the Council of Chalcedon, and the split in the universal church, a few things happened. An old monk and an abbot of a monastery in Constantinople called Eutyches defended Alexandrian Christology to the extinct that he failed to distinguish between the 'human and divine natures of Christ in thought-alone' according to Cyril of Alexandria. Flavian of Constantinople, Pope Leo of Rome, Emperor Theodosius II, Discourse of Alexandria were involved in this schism. Who exactly was Eutyches? What caused him to be excommunicated from the Church and labeled as a heretic? In this video, we'll provide a look at Eutyches and the Tome of Leo.

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Eutyches (378-456) had a large following of monks. He was sincerely committed
to the Alexandrian formula of the “one nature” which Cyril appropriated from
Apollinarius and upheld at the Council of Ephesus. Because of his ignorance,
Eutyches purported a false declaration in which he essentially implied that Christ’s
humanity was overwhelmed by the divinity so much so that the former ceased to
have any real existence and as such the only virtually subsisting nature in Christ is
the divine.

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