Monothelite

American  

[muh-noth-uh-lahyt] / məˈnɒθ əˌlaɪt /

noun

Theology.

1. a person who maintains that Christ has a single theanthropic will.

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Other Word Forms

• Monothelism noun
• Monothelitic adjective
• Monothelitism noun

Etymology

Origin of Monothelite

1540–50; < Medieval Latin monothelīta < Late Greek monothelḗtēs, equivalent to Greek mono- mono- + thelētḗs willer, equivalent to thelē- (variant stem of thélein to will) + -tēs agent suffix

Example Sentences

Fortunatus, Bishop of Carthage, declared himself a Monothelite, but in every other province besides his the Church formally repudiated the heresy.

From The Church and the Barbarians Being an Outline of the History of the Church from A.D. 461 to A.D. 1003 by Hutton, William Holden

This council, whose Acts were buried with the emperor, and whose numbers are not known, ordered the Monothelite heresy to be subscribed by all.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Monothelite, mon-oth′e-līt, n. one who holds that Christ had but one will and one operation or energy, as He had but one nature.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

Bardanes, Philippicus, reigns eighteen months, and tries to set up again the Monothelite heresy, 281; deposed and blinded, 282.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.

Later in the summer, Maximus was again brought into the judgement hall of the palace, where the two Monothelite patriarchs—Peter of Constantinople and Macedonius of Antioch, then living in the capital—were present.

From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Allies, Thomas W.