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Miaphysite vs Dyophysite - What's the difference?

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Dyophysite is a antonym of miaphysite.



In theology terms the difference between miaphysite and dyophysite

is that miaphysite is of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ had a single, though composite, nature while dyophysite is someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.

As an adjective miaphysite

is of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ had a single, though composite, nature.

As a noun Dyophysite is

someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.

miaphysite

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (theology) Of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ had a single, though composite, nature.
  • *2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 233:
  • *:The leaders of the Miaphysite cause across the empire still loudly proclaimed their loyalty to the imperial throne, and there is no reason to doubt that most were sincere.

    • dyophysite

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (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.

    • Antonyms

    *Miaphysite, Monophysite