demonstration; faith alone can “embrace these mysteries, for it is faith that makes real for us things beyond reason and intellect (Heb. 11:1).”17 Simple dogmatic description rather than philosophic solution typifies Eastern trinitarian theology. As for Christology, most instructive here is the Chalcedonian Creed of 451, which in describing the union of the divine and human natures of Christ employs a series of four negative words: the two natures of Christ exist “without confusion, change, division, or separation.”