The Doctrine of God the Redeemer

The Two Natures in Christ

The Dogma of the True Divinity of Christ, and Its Opponents

#72 Jesus Christ is True God and True Son of God.

The Reality of Christ’s Human Nature

#73 Christ assumed a real body, not an apparent body.

The Integrity of Christ’s Human Nature

#74 Christ assumed not only a body but also a rational soul.

The Adamite Origin of Christ’s Human Nature

#75 Christ was truly generated and born of a daughter of Adam, the Virgin Mary.

Christ is one Person

#76 The Divine and the human natures are united hypostatically in Christ, that is, joined to each other in one Person.

The Duality of the Natures

#77 In the Hypostatic Union each of the two natures of Christ continues unimpaired, untransformed and unmixed with the other.

The Duality of Wills and Modes of Operation in Christ

#78 Each of the two natures in Christ possesses its own natural will and its own natural mode of operation.

The Beginning and Duration of the Hypostatic Union

#79 The Hypostatic Union of Christ’s human nature with the Divine Logos took place at the moment of conception.

#80 The Hypostatic Union will never cease.

The Relationship of the Hypostatic Union to the Trinity

#81 The Hypostatic Union was effected by the Three Divine Persons acting in common.

#82 Only the Second Divine Person became Man.

The Natural Sonship of God of the Man

#83 Jesus Christ Not only as God but also as man Jesus Christ is the natural Son of God.

Christ’s Right to Adoration

#84 The God-Man Jesus Christ is to be venerated with one single mode of Worship, the absolute Worship of Latria which is due to God alone.

The Communication of Idioms

#85 Christ’s Divine and Human characteristics and activities are to be predicated of the one Word Incarnate.