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Monophysite vs Miaphysite - What's the difference?

monophysite | miaphysite |

As adjectives the difference between monophysite and miaphysite

is that monophysite is describing the beliefs of a Μonophysite while miaphysite is of or pertaining to Miaphysitism; maintaining that Christ had a single, though composite, nature.

As a noun Monophysite

is 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.

monophysite

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Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.

    • See also

    * monophysitism * * Arianism * Nestorianism

    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.