Nature of Jesus

Anglican Christology is fully orthodox in the Chalcedonian sense: Jesus Christ is one divine person in two natures, fully divine and fully human, without confusion or separation. The Thirty-Nine Articles (Articles II–IV) confess the eternal Son of God taking human nature from the Virgin Mary, suffering, dying, rising, and ascending. The creeds used in Anglican worship — Apostles', Nicene, and Athanasian — all confess the two natures of Christ.

Anglican Christology does not develop distinctive doctrinal innovations beyond the ecumenical councils. The tradition draws richly on patristic Christology (particularly the Alexandrian and Antiochene schools) and the writings of the Church of England's divines. Anglican theology of the Incarnation has been particularly influential in shaping Anglican spirituality and social ethics — the Incarnation grounds both sacramentalism and the Christian's engagement with the material world and human society.