Miaphysitism (One Incarnate Nature)
From two natures, one — the Word made flesh without mixture, change, or division
Miaphysitism teaches that Christ is from two natures united into one incarnate nature of the Word, without mixture or change, drawing on Cyril of Alexandria and Severus of Antioch. Traditions differ here. The Oriental Orthodox churches hold this as orthodox and firmly distinguish it from Eutychian monophysitism, which they also reject. It remains disputed with the Chalcedonian churches, which speak instead of two natures in one person.
How it traveled
- The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of TheodoretCyrrhus · c. 458 CEchallenges
Key passages(16)
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Orth.—The sea and the drop are different in quantity, though alike in quality; the one is greatest, the other is least; the one is sweet and the other is bitter; but in all other respects you will fin
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The Letters and Sermons of Leo the Great · Pope Leo the Great
S. Luke xxiv. 27. Ibid. 39. i.e. not to fall into the Charybdis of Nestorianism in avoiding the Scylla of Eutychianism. Fidei sacramento. John iv. 2, 3: the Lat. for “destroys” (or “dissolves,” Br
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Eran.—If the proper qualities of the natures remain distinct, how does the soul together with the body crave for food? Orth.—The soul does not crave for food. How could it when it is immortal? But th
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Eran.—And where is this taught in the divine Scripture? Orth.—It is all full of this teaching. Eran.—Give proof of what you assert. Orth.—Do you not acknowledge the properties of each nature? Eran
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Demonstrations by Syllogisms. That God the Word is Immutable. 1. We have confessed one substance of the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, and have agreed that it is immutable. If then there
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
XXI. To the Learned Eusebius. The disseminators of this great news, with the idea that it would be very distasteful to me, fancied that they might in this way annoy me. But I by God’s grace welcomed
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
“The flesh which received the Godhead, and which through the resurrection was exalted with the Godhead, is not formed of another material, but of ours; so, just as in the case of our own body, the ope
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
CLXX. Letter of certain Easterns, who had been sent to Constantinople, to Bishop Rufus. To our most godly and holy fellow-minister Rufus, Joannes, Himerius, Theodoretus, and the rest, send greeting i
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Now at this point it seems right to put forward once more our accuser’s statement in support of our own defence. We shall therefore repeat word for word the statement laid down by him, which supports
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
“There is an union between what is of God and what is of the body. On the one side is the adorable Creator Who is wisdom and power eternal; these are of the God And again a little further on:— “Men
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Eran.—There is no need of argument. The Lord distinctly teaches that He does not wish to be called Son of David. Orth.—Then He ought to have told the blind men and the woman of Canaan and the multitu
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
CXXVI. To the Bishop Sabinianus. Sabinianus succeeded Athanasius bishop of Perrha on the deposition of the latter at Antioch in 445. He was deposed at the Latrocinium and Athanasius restored. Both bi
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John of Damascus: Exposition of the Orthodox Faith · John of Damascus
Wherefore we confess Him, even after the incarnation, the one Son of God, and likewise Son of Man, one Christ, one Lord, the only-begotten Son and Word of God, one Lord Jesus. We reverence His two gen
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Orth.—And He that is could never become non-existent. Eran.—Away with the thought! Orth.—Nor yet could the Father become Son. Eran.—Impossible. Orth.—Nor yet could the unbegotten become begotten.
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The Fourth Ecumenical Council. The Council of Chalcedon · The Ecumenical Councils
Since after judgment had been delivered concerning him, there was need that all should agree in the right faith (for which purpose the most pious emperor had with the greatest pains assembled the holy
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The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of Theodoret · Theodoret of Cyrus
Orth.—But your opponent would retort that even in the Old Testament the divine Scripture says many things œconomically, as for instance, “Adam heard the voice of the Lord God walking,” Gen. iii. 8 G
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