The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1570 page)
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Monk
:
:
Monkey king, the
(Chinese immortal):
(Chinese immortal):
Monna
Monomyth
:
:
Mono no aware
(sensitivity, a key Shinto virtue):
(sensitivity, a key Shinto virtue):
Monophysites
.
.
The party who maintained, against the definition of
Chalcedon
(451) that in
Christ
there was but one (Gk.,
monos
) nature (
physis
). They flourished in Syria and Egypt under leaders like Severus of Antioch and were alternately conciliated and persecuted by the imperial government until the Arab invasions of the 7th cent. Their direct modern descendants are the
Oriental Orthodox churches
.
According to Monophysite doctrine, the union of God the Word (
Logos
) with the flesh at the
Incarnation
was such that to speak of distinct divine and human natures thereafter is wrongly to separate what was united. In 1984 the Syrian Orthodox
patriarch
(Mar Ignatius Zakka II) and the
pope
(John Paul II) signed a declaration affirming agreement, and declaring that the apparent differences arose from cultural and linguistic inadequacies.
Chalcedon
(451) that in
Christ
there was but one (Gk.,
monos
) nature (
physis
). They flourished in Syria and Egypt under leaders like Severus of Antioch and were alternately conciliated and persecuted by the imperial government until the Arab invasions of the 7th cent. Their direct modern descendants are the
Oriental Orthodox churches
.
According to Monophysite doctrine, the union of God the Word (
Logos
) with the flesh at the
Incarnation
was such that to speak of distinct divine and human natures thereafter is wrongly to separate what was united. In 1984 the Syrian Orthodox
patriarch
(Mar Ignatius Zakka II) and the
pope
(John Paul II) signed a declaration affirming agreement, and declaring that the apparent differences arose from cultural and linguistic inadequacies.
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