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Monothelite

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Mo`noth´e`lite
n.1.(Eccl. Hist.) One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite.


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The Global Anglicans Future Conference, being able to affirm only four of the seven ecumenical councils, by which Christian orthodoxy has been defined for 1,500 years, shows itself heterodox: Monophysites, monothelites, or nestorians?
He considers such topics as Rome and the East in the time of Gregory the Great, the monothelite controversy, the Lateran Council of 649, and the Italian expedition of Constans II as a prelude to the Greek popes.
On a more serious level, Acton also said that the defenders of infallibility would have a hard time with the case of Pope Honorius, who--speaking from the chair of Peter in matters of faith and morals--proclaimed the monothelite heresy to be true, and was condemned by a later council.
 
 
 
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