What Does the Term Monophysite Meaning?

Monophysite, in Christianity, one who believed that Jesus Christ's nature remains altogether divine and not human even though he has taken on an earthly and human body with its cycle of birth, life, and death.

What is the Monothelite heresy?

Noun. 1. Monothelitism - the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople. heresy, unorthodoxy - a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion.

Who is the founder of monophysitism?

Tritheists, a group of sixth-century Monophysites said to have been founded by a Monophysite named John Ascunages of Antioch. Their principal writer was John Philoponus, who taught that the common nature of Father, Son and Holy Spirit is an abstraction of their distinct individual natures.