Monophysite vs Dyophysite - What's the difference?
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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.
Describing the beliefs of a ?onophysite.
* It followed that however orthodox the Emperor might desire to be, he was forced, if he was a wise man, to take account of the strong bodies of monophysite''' opinion, which were to be found in Constantinople, in Mesopotamia, in Syria and in Egypt.'' - '''1957 H. A. L. Fisher ''A history of Europe Edward Arnold publishers p135.
(theology) Someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.
*2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 247:
*:Monasteries among the Dyophysites were strengthened through the military success of the Sassanian Shah Khusrau II in areas of the Byzantine Empire along the eastern Mediterranean.