MONOTHELITISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Monothelitism mean? 

• MONOTHELITISM (noun)
  The noun MONOTHELITISM has 1 sense:

1. the theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople

  Familiarity information: MONOTHELITISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONOTHELITISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The theological doctrine that Christ had only one will even though he had two natures (human and divine); condemned as heretical in the Third Council of Constantinople

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Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Monothelitism" is a kind of...):

heresy; unorthodoxy (a belief that rejects the orthodox tenets of a religion)

theological doctrine (the doctrine of a religious group)