SECTION 2

THE INCONFUSION OF THE TWO NATURES IN CHRIST
The " Hypostatic Union '' embraces two essential ele- ments: (i) The union of Christ's manhood with the Divine Person of the Logos, and (2) the existence of one Divine Person in two perfect natures, united but unmixed. A commingling of the two natures after the manner of natural compounds would be incompatible with the Hypostatic Union. The Xestorians denied the personal unity of Christ by exaggerating the concept of duality, while the Monophysites went to the opposite ex- treme of confounding the two natures. The Catholic Church pays due regard to both " unity in duality " and " duality in unity," thus holding the golden mean between these heretical extremes.
ARTICLE I
THE EXISTENCE OF ONE DIVINE PERSON IN TWO PERFECT NATURES, AS DEFINED AGAINST MONOPHYSITISM