Monophysite definitions

mə-nŏf'ə-sīt'
An adherent of the doctrine that in the person of Jesus there was but a single, divine nature.
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An adherent of an originally 4th- and 5th-cent. theory asserting the existence of only one nature (divine or divine-human) in Christ and opposing the orthodox doctrine of the existence of two distinct natures (one wholly divine, the other wholly human) in the one person of Christ.
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Alternative capitalization of Monophysite.
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Alternative capitalization of Monophysite.
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(Christianity) A member of an early Christian sect which held that Jesus Christ has one nature, as opposed to the orthodox view that Christ has two natures, both fully man and fully God, and is co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father.
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Describing the beliefs of a Îœonophysite.
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Origin of monophysite

From Medieval Latin monophysita, from Byzantine Ancient Greek μονοφυσίτης (monophusitÄ“s), from μόνος (monos, “single") + φύσις (phusis, “nature").

Sentence Examples

  • It shows that the " sobriety " of the Antiochene scholars can be predicated only of their exegesis; their style of piety was as exaggerated in its devotion to the ideals of monasticism as was that of their monophysite opponents.

  • But harmony was not thus to be restored; hardly had the council dissolved when the church was plunged into the Monophysite controversy.

  • In the east Syrian, the Armenian and the Georgian churches, respectively Nestorian, Monophysite and Greek Orthodox in their tenets, the agape was from the first a survival, under Christian and Jewish forms, of the old sacrificial systems of a pre-Christian age.

  • JOHN OF ASIA (or OF Ephesus), a leader of the Monophysite Syriac-speaking Church in the 6th century, and one of the earliest and most important of Syriac historians.

  • 195) to have succeeded Anthimus as Monophysite bishop of Constantinople, but this is probably a mistake.'

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