What is/are the nature(s) of Christ?

[JustinHesychast]

For the past couple of weeks, a few things have been eating and gnawing away at me. The apparent disunity of Orthodoxy has really kicked me lately, with regards to jurisdictions, Coptics, etc. The "t" and "T"raditions have gave me a bit of a smack, and some other things.

Right now I am focusing more on Orthodox (dis?)unity, and so have been reading more about Oriental Orthodoxy. I seem to get the impression that we believe the same things, but they are expressed differently, and that the Copts are more open to unity with us than we are to them. Some of my views, however, may come from a wrong belief in what the Church teaches on the nature of Christ. I read the Coptic explanations in regards to Eastern explanations, etc., and become very lost. Which leads me to think that I don't really understand what the Church teaches the nature of Christ is.

So all that is to ask... what is the nature of Christ? :scratch:

:help:

Thanks! :cool:

[Dorothea]

I don't know too much about the history of the OO and such, but the Two Natures of Christ are that He's fully man and fully God.

[EmperorConstantine]

Two natures and two wills. One fully man and one fully God.

I believe one of the main factors in schism at Chalcedon was semantics in language translations. The way the Copts interpreted our position, at the time, was one that seemed Nestorian.

[buzuxi02]

The Copts are not Eastern Orthodox. There is no disunity, they are not asscociated with us. Those non-chalcedon churches just recently began calling themselves Oriental Orthodox and were anathemized by the Church in the fourth Ecumenical council. This means they were cast off and severed from the rest of the Church which included Rome and the entire western church.

Orthodoxy teaches that Christ has two distinct natures (and wills), inseperable, without mixture, without confusion and without alteration, in the one person of our Lord.