A THEOLOGICAL SUPPORT, FROM CHALCEDON, TO THE SHROUD IMAGE NATURAL FORMATION Cover Image

A THEOLOGICAL SUPPORT, FROM CHALCEDON, TO THE SHROUD IMAGE NATURAL FORMATION
A THEOLOGICAL SUPPORT, FROM CHALCEDON, TO THE SHROUD IMAGE NATURAL FORMATION

Author(s): Giovanni Fazio
Subject(s): Christian Theology and Religion, Theology and Religion
Published by: Ideas Forum International Academic and Scientific Association
Keywords: : Shroud body image; natural formation; Council of Chalcedon; monophysitism; dyophysitism; hypostasis;

Summary/Abstract: The fourth Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon (451 AD) sanctions, for the Holy Churchvery important conclusions regarding the nature of Christ. The above results do notcontrast, but rather open to a natural formation of the Shroud body image. This occursbecause it was affirmed in Chalcedon that Jesus Christ, the Nazarene, has two natures,one human and one divine, “inconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably”,which coexist in one person (hypostasis). Consequently, the monophysitism of Euticheand of the Egyptian, Syrian and Armenian Churches, was rejected. Now, theResurrection of the Nazarene is a Transcendental event that, according to those like uswho support the natural formation of the Shroud body image, acted only on the corpseleaving the burial linen in the Immanent, under the dominion of the natural sciences.So, the Miracle of the Resurrection shows the divine nature of Christ, while the Shroudbody image formation, the human one..

  • Issue Year: 5/2021
  • Issue No: 8
  • Page Range: 42-48
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: English