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MONOTHELITISM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Monothelitism mean?
• MONOTHELITISM (noun)
The noun MONOTHELITISM has 1 sense:
1. the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople
Familiarity information: MONOTHELITISM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Monothelitism" is a kind of...):
heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)
theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)
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