Editing Monophysitism (section)

{{short description|Christological doctrine}}
{{Distinguish|Miaphysitism}}
{{Christology|expanded=Doctrines}}'''Monophysitism''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|n|ɒ|f|ɪ|s|aɪ|t|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|mə|NOF|ih|seye|tih|zəm}}<ref>[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/monophysitism "monophysitism"]. ''[[Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary]]''.</ref>) or '''monophysism''' ({{IPAc-en|m|ə|ˈ|n|ɒ|f|ɪ|z|ɪ|z|əm}} {{respell|mə|NOF|ih|zih|zəm}}; from [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] {{lang|grc|μόνος}} {{Transliteration|grc|monos}}, "solitary"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.04.0057:entry=mo/nos|title=Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon, μόνος|website=www.perseus.tufts.edu}}</ref> and {{lang|grc|φύσις}} {{Transliteration|grc|physis}}, "[[Nature (philosophy)|nature]]") is a [[Christology|Christological]] doctrine that states that there was only one nature—the divine—in the person of [[Jesus Christ]], who was the [[incarnation (Christianity)|incarnated]] [[Logos (Christianity)|Word]].<ref name="EspínNickoloff2007">{{cite book|author1=Orlando O. Espín|author2=James B. Nickoloff|title=An Introductory Dictionary of Theology and Religious Studies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k85JKr1OXcQC&pg=PA902|year=2007|publisher=Liturgical Press|isbn=978-0-8146-5856-7|page=902}}</ref> It is rejected as heretical by the [[Catholic Church]], [[Eastern Orthodox Church]], [[Anglicanism]], [[Lutheranism]], [[Reformed Christianity]] ([[Calvinist]]), and all mainstream [[Protestantism|Protestant]] denominations, which hold to the [[dyophysitism]] of the 451 [[Council of Chalcedon]]—as well by [[Oriental Orthodox Churches|Oriental Orthodoxy]], which holds to [[miaphysitism]].