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Because, don’t we all consider it of monumental importance today that the so-called monophysite churches of the East believed (and still believe today) that Christ has a singular nature — wholly divine — rather than both human and divine as churches respecting the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon (AD 451) all agree?
"We welcome our nation's symphony of faith." Ann Althouse 2007
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Some emperors tried to crush monophystitism outright – notably Justinian despite the fact that his wife Theodora had monophysite sympathies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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Some emperors tried to crush monophystitism outright– notably Justinian despite the fact that his wife Theodora had monophysite sympathies.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Genetic Evidence Shows Common Origins of Jews 2010
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On the eve of the fifth Council (Constantinople, 553) Philoponus stepped forward as a partisan of monophysite Christology which, in the course of the century, had become increasingly influential in the eastern part of the Roman empire.
John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007
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Since the loss of Syria and Egypt, there was no longer any need for favoring the monophysite view.
648 2001
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The Copts often practiced communal BAPTISM and have at times been monophysite in their CHRISTOLOGY.
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Church anathematizes Eutyches as a heretic, yet remains monophysite, and rejects the Catholic teaching as to the two natures.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913
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They and their Syrian neighbours but dogmatic opponents, the Jacobites, a monophysite body, adopted a conciliatory disposition towards the crusaders.
The Church and the Empire, Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 1003 to A.D. 1304 1907
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In contradistinction to this Western formula the monophysite one was calculated to satisfy both the _salvation_ interest and the understanding.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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[59] The monophysite doctrine (one incarnate nature) was rigorously preached in the churches of Egypt and the monasteries of the
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 Edward Gibbon 1765
trivet commented on the word monophysite
a type of heretic
February 7, 2007