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TIL that in 1990, the Eastern Orthodox & Oriental Orthodox Churches concluded that their 1539 year schism (over whether Jesus had two natures joined perfectly in one incarnate union or one incarnate nature consisting of joined natures) was due to terminology confusion rather than theology

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