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Monophysite vs Nestorian - What's the difference?

monophysite | nestorian |

As nouns the difference between monophysite and nestorian

is that monophysite is (monophysite) while nestorian is (sometimes|pejorative) a perceived follower of in the fourth and fifth centuries a member of a "nestorian" church.

As adjectives the difference between monophysite and nestorian

is that monophysite is (monophysite) while nestorian is (sometimes|pejorative) relating to teachings or to the followers of.

monophysite

English

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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

    nestorian

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (sometimes, pejorative) relating to teachings or to the followers of
  • :A Nestorian stele, dated 781AD, was discovered in 1625 near Changan

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sometimes, pejorative) A perceived follower of in the fourth and fifth centuries. A member of a "Nestorian" church.
  • :After his return he bitterly complained of being called a Nestorian by the Monophysite Philoxenus, declaring that he "knew nothing" of Nestorius.

    • See also

    *Nestorius *Nestorianism

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