Council of Trent on the person of Christ
One person in two natures, unconfused and undivided
was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, and was made man
THE POSITION
As with the Trinity, Trent's Christology is the creed it recites in the Third Session, not a new definition. The session says it opens with the Symbol as "the most sacred councils" before it had done, and it does not reopen any christological question.
21 OTHERS HOLD THIS
ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Met in twenty-five sessions over three periods, at Trento in northern Italy except for two sessions held at Bologna in 1547. Called by Paul III and closed under Pius IV. It answered the Reformation point by point: Scripture and tradition, the canon, original sin, justification and the seven sacraments. From the Sixth Session on, each subject is set out in chapters and then in canons ending "let him be anathema." The Catholic Church counts it the nineteenth ecumenical council; the Orthodox and Protestant churches do not count it as ecumenical. Read here in J. Waterworth's 1848 translation.
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"Council of Trent on the person of Christ", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/trent/christology (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/trent/christology).