Monday, 7 December 2009

cjbanning: (The Bishop)
More for my benefit and reference than anything else.
We, then, following the holy Church, all with one consent, teach people to confess one and the same Child God, Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in humanity; truly god and truly human, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Parent God according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the humanity; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Parent God according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the Virgin Mary, the mother of God, according to the humanity; one and the same Christ, Child God, only begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Child God, and only begotten, God the Word, Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning Christ, and Jesus Christ has taught us, and the Creed of the holy Church has handed down to us.
Altered from the translation found at Wikipedia; if anyone knows of a more contemporary-sounding translation, please let me know.

I'm not completely comfortable with the hierarchy implicit even in a nongendered Parent/Child distinction, but I'm not sure how to capture the relationship between those two Persons of the trinity otherwise, so.
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