Monothelite

Examples

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• The first paragraph is, in fact, a rehearsal of the monothelite position, with a view toward understanding it better.

  Academic text (1991)

• According to Thomas, the monothelite position is based upon a hierarchy of operations, which implies the passivity of the inferior agent.

  Academic text (1991)

• The problem with the monothelites is that they operate from but one view of causality, whereby an effect, even a diversity of effects, can be traced only to one cause or mover.

  Academic text (1991)

• The underlying problem for Thomas was set forth by the monothelites and their respondents: how to account for one saving work of the incarnate Word through the two natures of Christ.

  Academic text (1991)

• First, he examines the monothelite heresy, which was condemned by the Sixth Ecumenical Council (the Third Council of Constantinople) in 680-681.

  Academic text (1991)

• All "monothelites" held one sole hypostatic energy in Christ, or one theandric activity of Christ—one sole hypostatic divine hegemony.

  Academic text (1991)

• The teachings of the monothelite sect sparked significant theological debates during the seventh century.

• The monothelite doctrine emphasizes Christ's unity of will amid his dual nature as both divine and human.

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