In episode 22 of Church History, Pastor Lance takes us through the 300 years between the time of the Apostles Creed and the Chalcedonian Creed, which proved to be a dynamic time for the crystallization of Christology. He charts the pressures between the early 2nd and mid-5th centuries which led to a need to clearly define who Jesus was: from the Council of Nicaea, to the Council of Chalcedon. Pastor Lance highlights the trinitarian work of the Cappadocian Fathers: Basil the Great of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory of Nazianzus; and examines the Council of Ephesus, Council of Constantinople, as well as the divergent influences of the seminal dioceses of Alexandria and Antioch. We look again at John Chrysostom, and introduce the war between Bishops Cyril and Nestorius, who embodied a battle between monophysites and dyophysites, as well as the related concepts of Apollinarianism and Eutychianism. The related tension between the terms Theotokos and Christotokos are touched on, as well as the influences of and interplay between Bishop Celestine, John Cassian, Bishop Memmon of Ephesus, and the origins of what is known as today as the Church of the East.
Church History - Episode 22: Who Do You Say He Is? | Pastor Lance Ralston
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