a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
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monophysitism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | heresy, theological doctrine, unorthodoxy |
| Derivation | monophysitic |
Examples of monophysitism
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Monophysitism and Eutyches were again rejected at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
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It repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.
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Both Nestorianism and monophysitism were condemned as heretical at the Council of Chalcedon.
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Apollinarism and Eutychianism were two forms of monophysitism.
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It included a call to oriental communities adhering to monophysitism to return to the Catholic Church.
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Monophysitism survived and developed into the Miaphysitism of the modern Oriental Orthodox churches.
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A philosophical justification of monophysitism.
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Wary of monophysitism, Nestorius rejected Cyril's theory of a hypostatic union, proposing instead a union of will.
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This doctrine is not to be confused with monophysitism which is condemned by the Oriental Orthodox churches.
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- A Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
- Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one, alone' and physis meaning 'nature'), or Monophysiticism, is the Christological position that Christ has only one nature, his humanity being absorbed by his Deity, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ maintains two ...
- A heresy which arose in the fifth century concerning the two Natures of Christ. The monophysites accepted only the Divine Nature of Christ, and were condemned as heretics by the Fourth Ecumenical Council, at Nicaea (451 A.D.) (see also Copts).
- A belief that Jesus Christ only had a single nature, and that it was divine. This contrasts with Diophysitism and the hypostatic union.
