Council of Chalcedon on Original sin & the human will
451 · ECUMENICAL COUNCIL · DOCUMENT, NOT A PERSON
READ IN A PRIMARY SOURCENO POSITION FOUND
NO STANCE — AND WHY
No position located on this map
Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.
consubstantial with us as touching his manhood; made in all things like unto us, sin only excepted
The Chalcedonian Definition (451)
THE POSITION
The Definition is entirely Christological — two natures in one person, without confusion, change, division or separation — and defines nothing about the nature Christ assumed beyond its completeness: "truly man, of a reasonable soul and body." What the fall did to that nature is not its subject. By 451 the question was long since live, so this is searched and not located rather than never framed.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
Will in bondage; needs sovereign grace to be freedAUGUSTINE · VODDIE BAUCHAM · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · THE CHURCH OF ELEVEN22 STATEMENT OF FAITH · M. HEISER · JOSH HOWERTON · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER · R.C. SPROUL · CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · GEORGE WHITEFIELD · ZWINGLI
Nature wounded but not destroyed; grace perfects itAQUINAS · ATHANASIUS · EPHESUS · WILLIAM OF OCKHAM · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS
Depraved, but prevenient grace restores ability to respondJACOBUS ARMINIUS · BILLY GRAHAM · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Free will substantially intact; God and man cooperateBASIL THE GREAT · CHRYSOSTOM · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · IRENAEUS
"Council of Chalcedon on Original sin & the human will", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/chalcedon-451/original-sin (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/chalcedon-451/original-sin).