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AD 680–681 · Constantinople

Third Council of Constantinople

The Third Council of Constantinople, AD 680–681, defining the two natural wills and operations in Christ before Emperor Constantine IV, with Christ Pantocrator enthroned above the assembled bishops, and the reposed Saint Maximus the Confessor honored and vindicated in a separate medallion above the assembly rather than seated among the fathers.
The Third Council of Constantinople, AD 680–681, defining the two natural wills and operations in Christ before Emperor Constantine IV, with Christ Pantocrator enthroned above the assembled bishops, and the reposed Saint Maximus the Confessor honored and vindicated in a separate medallion above the assembly rather than seated among the fathers.
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Confessing two natural wills in Christ, the council vindicated St. Maximus the Confessor: a complete humanity includes a human will, freely and perfectly united to the divine (Constantinople, 680–681).

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