monophysitism
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.09 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Christological doctrine, generally considered heterodox or heretical, holding that Jesus Christ has a single nature, which is either wholly divine or partially human and partially divine.
Uncountable
name
Alternative letter-case form of monophysitism.
Example Sentences
- "To claim that Jesus did not have human feelings amounts to monophysitism."
- "But of monophysitism, Eutychianism, mixture or fusion of the natures, transformation of the one nature into the other, or the absorption of humanity into divinity Schwenckfeld was accused, as previously observed."
- "A third inadequate view is called monophysitism […] The primary advocate of this view in the early church was Eutyches […] [who] taught that Jesus was a mixture of divine and human elements in which both were somewhat modified to form one new nature."
- "The other major dissenting group, the Monophysites […] rejected the Orthodox doctrine that Christ’s divine and human natures were separate. In practice, they usually even went further and stated that Christ had a single, divine nature. Monophysitism became the doctrine of the Coptic Church in Egypt, which made up the vast majority of Egyptians."
- "Severus of Antioch became the new leader of Monophysitism after Chalcedon […] The Monophysites saw the Logos as he had become incarnate, and possessed his humanity and divinity in one new nature that combined both."
- "Aramaic was the vernacular language of Syria until it was replaced by Arabic. Syriac remained the ecclesiastical language of Monophysitism."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: μονοφυσιτισμός