This is the actual 1994 Common Christological Declaration signed jointly by Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, resolving centuries of formal Christological dispute between the two churches that trace back to the ancient controversy over Nestorius. As the primary ecumenical instrument itself, agreed and signed by both church leaders, it is the correct and authoritative source for the declaration's own actual text and terms. Its limit is exactly that it is the agreement itself rather than independent theological or historical analysis, so it tells a reader precisely what the two churches agreed to affirm together but says little on its own about the centuries of prior dispute leading up to it or the declaration's reception within each church's own wider communion, both of which need an independent historian's or theologian's account alongside the text itself.
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This is the actual 1994 Common Christological Declaration signed jointly by Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, treated at the top tier as that primary joint doctrinal text. NotesThe Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East's own joint christological declaration, signed by John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV (1994); the churches' own ecumenical agreement, not independent theological analysis.
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AuthorJohn Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV
PublisherHoly See
Publication Year1994
Source TypePrimary document
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This source names Assyrian Church of the East directly: "IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, resolving centuries of formal Christological dispute between the two churches that trace back to the ancient controversy over..."
This source names Assyrians directly: "This is the actual 1994 Common Christological Declaration signed jointly by Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, resolving centuries of..."
This source names John Paul II directly: "Declaration signed jointly by Pope John Paul II and Mar Dinkha IV, the Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, resolving centuries of formal Christological dispute between the two..."
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