| The view
that in the person of Christ there is one rather than two natures. |
This teaching holds
that in Christ there is one incarnate nature of the Word of God. Cyril
of Alexandria taught a form of
monophysitism acceptable to orthodox theologians, although the term itself
is pejorative. Eutycheanism is a heretical
version of monophysitism. Monophysite views are sometimes ascribed to
the so-called "Oriental Orthodox Churches" (Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian,
and Syrian) which rejected the teaching of the Council
of Chalcedon (451) which held that in Christ there are two natures,
one human and the other divine.
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