Nature of Jesus

The Maronite Church affirms the Chalcedonian definition of Christ: one divine Person possessing two complete natures—divine and human—without mixture, confusion, separation, or division. The Maronite Church also explicitly accepts the teaching of the Third Council of Constantinople (681) that Christ has two wills (divine and human), definitively rejecting Monothelitism (the doctrine that Christ has only one will). This point of clarification is historically significant because early Maronite communities in Syria were historically associated with the Monothelite controversy in the 7th century.

The Maronite tradition offers a rich Christological piety expressed in its Syriac liturgical poetry, icons, and theological reflection. Mary is venerated as Theotokos (Mother of God), a title enthusiastically embraced in Maronite devotional life. The Syriac tradition also presents Christ in vivid scriptural imagery—as the Sun of Justice, the Good Shepherd, and the Divine Physician.