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Melkitism

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melkitenoun(since 1724) A member of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church; ellipsis of Catholic Melkite.
monophysitismnoun(Christianity) A Christological doctrine, generally considered heterodox or heretical, holding that Jesus Christ has a single nature, which is either wholly divine or partially human and partially divine.
meletiannoun(historical) A member of a large group of denominations in early Christian history.
monophysitenoun(Christianity) A member of a Christian sect which held that Jesus Christ has one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian view that Christ has two natures, both fully man and fully God, and is co-eternal and co-substantial with the Father.
macedonianismnoun(Christianity, historical) A fourth-century Christian heresy that denied the full personality and divinity of the Holy Spirit (also called Pneumatomachi).
monothelitismnounThe doctrines of the Monothelites.
monophysitistnounmonophysite
acephalitenoun(historical, uncommon) A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).
miaphysitismnoun(theology) A Christological formula, upheld by the Oriental Orthodox Church, holding that divinity and humanity are united in a single nature in Christ.
eutychianismnounRadical monophysitism; the form of monophysitism taught by Eutyches.
monothelismnounThe doctrines of the Monothelites.
maculismnoun(Christianity) Rejection of belief in the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary.
paulicianismnoun(historical) A Christian sect and militarized revolt movement that flourished between 650 and 872 in Armenia and the Eastern Themes of the Byzantine Empire.
mechitaristnoun(historical) A member of a congregation of Benedictine monks of the Armenian Catholic Church established in 1717 by Abbot Mekhitar of Sebaste on the island of San Lazzaro, south of Venice.
henotikonnoun(historical) A Christological document issued by the Byzantine emperor Zeno in 482, in an unsuccessful attempt to reconcile the differences between the supporters of the Council of Chalcedon and the council's opponents.
chalcedonianismnounThe religious doctrine of the Chalcedonians.
metochionnounAn ecclesiastical embassy church within Eastern Orthodox tradition.
antiochianismnoun(Christianity, historical) A school of theology in the 4th and 5th centuries which spread over the whole Graeco-Syrian Church, and was a revolt against the allegorical interpretation of Scripture favoured by the Alexandrian school.
hesychast controversynoun(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A particular controversy concerning dogma in the 14th-century Byzantine Empire, over whether the idea of divine light was polytheistic, postulating two eternal substances, a visible and an invisible God.
monachismnounMonasticism.

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