The Definition of Chalcedon
About this definition
The Council of Chalcedon answered two opposite errors about Christ: Nestorianism, which so divided His deity and humanity as to make two persons; and Eutychianism, which so mingled them as to make one blended nature. The council confessed one Person in two natures, marked by its famous four adverbs: without confusion, without change, without division, without separation.
The Definition
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.
1 Timothy 3:16 (KJV)
Following the holy fathers, we all with one consent teach men to confess one and the same Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, the same perfect in Godhead and also perfect in manhood; truly God and truly man, of a reasonable soul and body; consubstantial with the Father according to the Godhead, and consubstantial with us according to the manhood; in all things like unto us, without sin; begotten before all ages of the Father according to the Godhead, and in these latter days, for us and for our salvation, born of the virgin Mary, the mother of God according to the manhood;
one and the same Christ, Son, Lord, Only-begotten, to be acknowledged in two natures, without confusion, without change, without division, without separation; the distinction of natures being by no means taken away by the union, but rather the property of each nature being preserved, and concurring in one Person and one Subsistence, not parted or divided into two persons, but one and the same Son, and only begotten, God the Word, the Lord Jesus Christ; as the prophets from the beginning have declared concerning Him, and the Lord Jesus Christ Himself has taught us, and the creed of the holy fathers has handed down to us.
"Mother of God"?
The title theotokos ("God-bearer") says something about Christ, not a special status for Mary: the child she bore is the eternal Son of God. It confesses His deity from conception — it does not teach devotion to Mary.