Monotheletism

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(Theology) the 7th-century religious doctrine that stated that Christ has only one divine will but both a divine and a human nature

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Monothelitism, Monotheletism

a heretical position of the 7th century that Christ’s human will had been superseded by the divine. Also Monothelism. — Monothelite, Monothelete, n. — Monothelitic, Monotheletic, adj.

See also: Christ

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note: Soloviev wrote an encyclopedia article on seventh-century Monotheletism, which asserted the unity of the two wills, while the seventeenth-century contemplative movement of quietism sought perfection through passivity.

The moral organization of humanity as a whole (1899)

Monotheletism which admitted only one will in Christ was the conclusion of the Monophysite movement.

Can a Pope be Deposed

In the East, the council failed to reconcile the Chalcedonians and non-Chalcedonians and opened up the Eastern Church to a new festering dogmatic crisis, that of Monotheletism, the view that Christ had only one will, while deliberately leaving vague whether Christ as man had a truly operating free will in the union or whether there existed only one will in the union, that of the divine.