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== Heresies of the Church Thru the Ages <ref name="term_48978" /> == | == Heresies of the Church Thru the Ages <ref name="term_48978" /> == | ||
<p> (Greek: | <p> (Greek: ''Monos'' , single; ''Thelo'' , will) </p> <p> A heresy which, in the 7th century, began within the Church out of an attempt to conciliate the Monophysites. The latter, confusing the idea of personality with the undivided activity of a single will, held that there was a kind of divino-human will and divino-human operation in Christ, the Man-God. The [[Monothelites]] admitted the orthodox doctrine of the existence of the two natures but claimed that these natures had a common will and a common activity. This view was strongly urged by Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, who had enlisted the sympathy of [[Pope]] [[Honorius]] in his cause, and combated by Sophronius, a Palestinian monk, later patriarch of Jerusalem. After dividing the Eastern Church for over half a century, the controversy was brought to a close by the Sixth General [[Council]] (Constantinople, 681) when the doctrines of the Monothelites were formally condemned. </p> | ||
== Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_145455" /> == | == Webster's Dictionary <ref name="term_145455" /> == | ||
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Heresies of the Church Thru the Ages [1]
(Greek: Monos , single; Thelo , will)
A heresy which, in the 7th century, began within the Church out of an attempt to conciliate the Monophysites. The latter, confusing the idea of personality with the undivided activity of a single will, held that there was a kind of divino-human will and divino-human operation in Christ, the Man-God. The Monothelites admitted the orthodox doctrine of the existence of the two natures but claimed that these natures had a common will and a common activity. This view was strongly urged by Sergius, patriarch of Constantinople, who had enlisted the sympathy of Pope Honorius in his cause, and combated by Sophronius, a Palestinian monk, later patriarch of Jerusalem. After dividing the Eastern Church for over half a century, the controversy was brought to a close by the Sixth General Council (Constantinople, 681) when the doctrines of the Monothelites were formally condemned.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(n.) The doctrine of the Monothelites.
A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [3]
Monothelitism. [See MONOPHYSITISM.]
