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Miaphysitism ( / maɪˈæfɪsaɪtɪzəm, miː -/ [1]) is the Christological doctrine that holds Jesus, the " Incarnate Word, is fully divine and fully human, in one 'nature' ( physis )." [2] It is a position held by the Oriental Orthodox Churches and differs from the Chalcedonian position that Jesus is one "person" ( Greek: ὑπόστασις ...
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.
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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 divine. [3] Background.
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.
…a doctrinal position known as miaphysitism, which holds that both divinity and humanity are equally present within a single (hence the Greek prefix mia-) nature in the person of Christ. When the Georgian church broke away from the Armenians and reunited with Eastern Orthodoxy in the early 7th century, the…
Jun 8, 2021 · Miaphysitism is the idea that Christ has a single united nature that is both human and divine. This idea is rooted in the works of Cyril of Alexandria. Many Miaphysites were opposed to the theology articulated at the 451 council of Chalcedon and the Miaphysite churches in the Roman East gradually evolved a distinctive identity over the course ...
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 ...
