Chalcedon

[kal-si-don, kal-seed-n]

noun

1. an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium.

2. Council of, the ecumenical council held there in a.d. 451.

Other Word Forms

• Chalcedonian adjective

Example Sentences

The Coptic Church separated from other Christian denominations at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, in a dispute over the human and divine nature of Jesus Christ.

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In the early third century Herophilus of Chalcedon, the brilliant Alexandrian anatomist, invented a device for timing the pulse.

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The Council of Chalcedon was another hundred years later in 451, when it standardized theology that that Christ was fully human and fully God.

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The Chalcedon Foundation posted a brief blog about Phillips’ death, calling him a “longtime Chalcedon colleague and supporter, and close personal friend to R. J. Rushdoony.”

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And second, that the schism in the church after the Council of Chalcedon in AD451 was a major turning point in ecclesiastical history.

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