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The Christian
Belief Map

What the first five centuries believed — and who still believes it today.

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Belief Records
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Doctrines
Apostolic Succession 1 Christology 12 church 1 Ecclesiology 83 Eschatology 24 existence-of-god 2 Grace & Free Will 3 grace-justification 1 Liturgy 0 Mariology 15 Mariology 0 moral-theology 9 natural-law 3 papacy 0 Petrine Ministry 33 Pneumatology 6 Prayer & Devotion 5 Purgatory 1 saints 0 salvation 6 Scripture & Tradition 34 social-teaching 0 Soteriology 7 The Eucharist 37 The Priesthood 11 The Resurrection 1 The Sacraments 37 The Trinity 9

CHRISTOLOGY

8 records
What the early Church fathers taught on this doctrine
Affirmed (8)
Which modern traditions agree with the early Church on this doctrine?
Dark bar = identical/convergent · Light = partial agreement
Catholic
100% 8/8
Orthodox
100% 8/8
Lutheran
100% 8/8
Reformed
88% 7/8
Baptist
88% 7/8
Evangelical
88% 7/8
By Era
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Apostolic
0
Ante-nicene
6
Nicene
2
Post-nicene
Figures Attesting
8 Belief Records
CN Council of Nicaea AD 325
Christ is homoousios — of the same substance as the Father — not a lesser or created divine being
affirmed
CN Council of Nicaea AD 325
The Council of Nicaea is clear that the Son is not a creature — Arius is wrong that there was a time when the Son was not
affirmed
AA Athanasius of Alexandria c. AD 356
Athanasius defends homoousios against the Arian majority — the entire council cannot override the truth
affirmed
GN Gregory of Nazianzus c. AD 381
Gregory of Nazianzus argues that Christ assumed a complete human soul and mind — or the mind is not redeemed
affirmed
CA Cyril of Alexandria c. AD 430
Cyril of Alexandria insists the one subject who suffers in the Passion is the eternal Word made flesh
affirmed
CE Council of Ephesus AD 431
The Virgin Mary is rightly called Theotokos — God-bearer — because the one born of her is truly God
affirmed
PI Pope Leo I AD 449
Leo I teaches the two-natures doctrine in the Tome — Chalcedon endorses it as the voice of Peter
affirmed
CC Council of Chalcedon AD 451
Christ is one person with two natures — fully divine and fully human — without confusion or separation
affirmed
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