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What did the Council of Chalcedon decide about the Trinity?

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Based upon the formulation given by Pope St. Leo I in his famous Tome to Flavian, it declared that, contrary to the view taken by Eutychianism (see Eutyches ) and Monophysitism , the second Person of the Trinity has two distinct natures—one divine and one human.

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