Definition of "monophysitism"

But of monophysitism, Eutychianism, mixture or fusion of the natures, transformation of the one nature into the other, or the absorption of humanity into divinity Schwenckfeld was accused, as previously observed.

1959, Paul L. Maier, Caspar Schwenckfeld on the Person and Work of Christ: A Study of Schwenckfeldian Theology at Its Core, page 78

A third inadequate view is called monophysitism […] The primary advocate of this view in the early church was Eutyches […] [who] taught that Jesus was a mixture of divine and human elements in which both were somewhat modified to form one new nature.

2000, Wayne A. Grudem, Systematic Theology: An Introduction to Biblical Doctrine, 2nd edition, page 555

The other major dissenting group, the Monophysites […] rejected the Orthodox doctrine that Christ’s divine and human natures were separate. In practice, they usually even went further and stated that Christ had a single, divine nature. Monophysitism became the doctrine of the Coptic Church in Egypt, which made up the vast majority of Egyptians.

2004, Vernon O. Egger, A History of the Muslim World to 1405: The Making of a Civilization, page 9

Severus of Antioch became the new leader of Monophysitism after Chalcedon […] The Monophysites saw the Logos as he had become incarnate, and possessed his humanity and divinity in one new nature that combined both.

2022, James D. Gifford Jr., The Hexagon of Heresy: A Historical and Theological Study of Definitional Divine Simplicity, page 99

Aramaic was the vernacular language of Syria until it was replaced by Arabic. Syriac remained the ecclesiastical language of Monophysitism.

1994, M. A. Al-Bakhit et al., editors, History of Humanity, volume 4, From the Seventh to the Sixteenth Century, page 318