Monothelite
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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
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Then followed the Monothelite heresy, which was a revival of the Eutychian or Monophysite, and was condemned in the Sixth.
From An Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine by John Henry Cardinal Newman
The Arian, Manichæan, Marcionite, and Monothelite heresies spread, during this century, through the Greek Church, and, where the Arabians ruled, the Nestorians and Monophysites also flourished.
From The Freethinker's Text Book, Part II. Christianity: Its Evidences, Its Origin, Its Morality, Its History by Annie Wood Besant
The year after Pope Martin held a Synod to condemn the Monothelite heresy, an eclipse of the Sun took place.
From The Story of Eclipses by George F. (George Frederick) Chambers
He sees here an allusion to the Monothelite controversy.526.I.e., the Eastern, which consisted in shaving the whole head.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Cuthbert Bede
These were the wounds struck by the Monothelite heresy on the Christian Church and the eastern empire in the first fifty years which ran from the death of Mohammed.
From The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII by Thomas W. Allies
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