Monophysitism

Here's another.

It's, it's also called Monophysitism.

So if you thought Eutychianism was hard, uh, try to memorize that one.

It's named after a guy a- named Eutyches, who taught that Jesus was essentially a divine human hybrid.

Another group split off in a council after the Assyrians broke off.

This next group goes by many different names, including very often Monophysite, but also sometimes as Non-Chalcedonian or Oriental Orthodox.

The Oriental Orthodox themselves do not refer to themselves as Monophysite, and that name was given to them by the Western, Eastern, or Roman Imperial Church to describe their Christology.

These are the churches that did not accept the outcome of the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon.

The churches who fall into this category are still around today and include, but aren't limited to, the Christians found in southern India since ancient times, the main Christian group of Armenia, the Copts of Egypt, and other areas of eastern Africa, among others, are all in this Oriental Orthodox communion.

Justinian was serious about religion, and he was seriously involved in theology.

This council was just a mess.

It was called to heal the rifts between the Roman Constantinopolitan Church and the Monophysites, but that just fell through.

This valor, however, was not limited to the blood spilled by the early martyrs.

The children of the Orthodox Church invariably continued displaying fortitude and bravery in the face of cruelty and brutality, whether it came from Julian the Apostate, Arians, Monophysites, Iconoclasts, or Latin-minded monastics.

Members of this heroic phalanx of the Orthodox Church include not only hierarchs like St. Athanasios the Great, St.

Basil the Great, and St. John Chrysostom, but also figures such as St. Theodore, the abbot of the Studite Monastery, along with his disciples, St. Maximus the Confessor, St.

That's correct

... had a somewhat different theology than, you know, the Monophys, what we call the Monophysites or the Miaphysites, whatever you wanna call them.

You know, the Jacobite Church, Coptic Church, Armenians, you have the Eastern Orthodox.

You know, in the early periods or early centuries, there's the Ebionites who were the Jewish Christians.

According to Monsignor Duquesne, we know that the three bishops who are called confessors were victims of the persecution under Valens, A.D. 367-378, page 547.

We can hardly be said to know this, but only that this is more likely that they were, other things being considered, than that they were those whom the emperor Anastasius, favoring the Monophysites, drove out in the early years of the sixth century, as Meister maintains.

Is it, however, altogether certain that confessor in these three cases means more than a stricter ascete than an ordinary monachus? Duquesne himself recognizes that this is a frequent meaning of the title in those days.

See Christian Worship, page 142, 173, 284, and 420. and Bradesol, East du Breve, Rome, page 57.

And then there are lots of lovely names and words.

Monophysite, Iamblicus, Pomponazzi.

You bring them out triumphantly and feel you've clinched the argument with the mere magical sound of them.

That's what comes of the higher education.

And I've spent some of my time reading fiction.

But nowadays it's like like recently I've been reading a lot about the Monophysite movement, the Council of Chalcedon, because, you know, I think.

uh these apologists in like the non-calcedonian sphere they're uh starting to get a lot more attention uh i think we all know deacon mirette from the ethiopian toahito church his interaction with stewart connectly uh i think that sent him skyrocketing and he's just such he's got such a winsome disposition and personality it's like it's almost intimidating it's like great now i'm gonna come off as the big meanie and everybody's like oh he's so nice you know well But yeah, I think fiction is so crucially important for conveying.

As litigators, we talk about bringing these graduate-level, complex ideas.