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Miaphysitism (/ m aɪ ˈ æ f ɪ s aɪ t ɪ z əm, m iː-/) is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the "Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one 'nature' ()." It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and differs from the Chalcedonian position that Jesus is one "person" (Greek: ὑπόστασις) in two "natures" (Greek: φύσεις), a divine nature ...
Aug 21, 2013 · Miaphysitism (sometimes called henophysitism) is the Christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches. Miaphysitism holds that in the one person of Jesus Christ, Divinity and Humanity are united in one "nature" ("physis"), the two being united without separation, without confusion, and without alteration. Miaphysitism has often been considered by ...
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miaphysitism. Severus of Antioch (born c. 465, Sozopolis, Pisidia, Asia Minor [near modern Konya, Turkey]—died 538, Xois, Egypt) was a Greek Christian monk - theologian, patriarch of Antioch, and miaphysite leader during the reigns of the Byzantine emperors Anastasius I (491–518) and Justinian I (527–565). His later ecclesiastical ...
May 8, 2016 · The critically important phrase which St. Cyril of Alexandria uses in his early Christological doctrine, Mia physis tou theou logou sesarkomene (One enfleshed nature (physis) of God the Word), is one that the Non-Chalcedonian (Oriental) Orthodox Churches return to with great insistence, as part of their historic position that Chalcedon 451 departed from Cyril’s authentically patristic ...
Monophysitism ( / məˈnɒfɪsaɪtɪzəm / mə-NOF-ih-seye-tih-zəm [1]) or monophysism ( / məˈnɒfɪzɪzəm / mə-NOF-ih-zih-zəm; from Greek μόνος monos, "solitary" [2] and φύσις physis, "nature") is a Christology that states that in the person of the incarnated Word (that is, in Jesus Christ) there was only one nature—the ...
The Oriental Orthodox Churches are Eastern Christian churches adhering to Miaphysite Christology, with approximately 50 million members worldwide. The Oriental Orthodox Churches adhere to the Nicene Christian tradition. Oriental Orthodoxy is one of the oldest branches in Christianity.
Nov 25, 2011 · Miaphysite means “one nature” (Greek, mia = one; physite = nature) and refers to the one‐nature Christology of Cyril of Alexandria articulated in his famous dictum, “one nature of God the Word Incarnate.” The miaphysites base their Christology on the theology of both Cyril and his predecessor Athanasius.
