Monophysite (Noun)
Meaning
An adherent of Monophysitism.
Classification
Nouns denoting people.
Examples
- The early Christian church in Egypt was largely composed of monophysites who rejected the Council of Chalcedon's definition of Christ's nature.
- In the 5th century, the Byzantine Empire was divided between Orthodox Christians and monophysites who refused to accept the imperial church's authority.
- As a monophysite, he believed that Christ had only one nature, a synthesis of human and divine.
- The Armenian Apostolic Church, with its predominantly monophysite doctrine, maintained its independence from the Byzantine Empire.
- In the early Middle Ages, the term monophysite became a pejorative label applied to Christians who refused to acknowledge the authority of the Pope and the Orthodox churches.