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The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
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Christological doctrine
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Theological resolution adopted at the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451)
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