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Title: Monophysitism Past and Present
A Study in Christology

Author: A. A. Luce

Release Date: December 1, 2009 [EBook #30219]

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MONOPHYSITISM

PAST AND PRESENT

A STUDY IN CHRISTOLOGY

BY

A. A. LUCE, M.C., D.D.

CAPTAIN LATE 12TH ROYAL IRISH RIFLES

FELLOW OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN

LONDON

SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE

NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN CO.

1920

PRINTED BY

WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,

LONDON AND BECCLES

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF MONOPHYSITISM
II. THE ORIGINS OF MONOPHYSITISM
III. MONOPHYSITE DOCTRINE
IV. THE ETHOS OF MONOPHYSITISM
V. MONOPHYSITISM AND MODERN PSYCHOLOGY
VI. MONOPHYSITISM IN THE PRESENT DAY

BOOKS CONSULTED IN THE

PREPARATION OF THIS ESSAY

J. S. ASSEMANI, "Bibliotheca Orientalis," especially the Introductory
Dissertation to Vol. II.

A. HARNACK, "History of Dogma," translated by Speirs and Millar.

J. C. ROBERTSON, "History of the Christian Church."

WINDELBAND, "History of Philosophy," translated by Tufts.

WRIGHT, "Short History of Syriac Literature."

H. BERGSON, "Les donnees immediates de la conscience," "Matiere et
Memoire," "L'evolution creatrice."

MONOPHYSITISM PAST AND PRESENT

CHAPTER I

THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF MONOPHYSITISM

Monophysitism was a Christological heresy of the fifth century. It was
condemned by the church in the middle of that century at the council of
Chalcedon. Surviving its condemnation it flourished in the East for
several centuries. Its adherents formed themselves into a powerful
church with orders and succession of their own. Although the
monophysite church has long since lost all influence, it is still in
being. The Coptic and Jacobite churches of Egypt and Mesopotamia,
respectively, preserve to this day the doctrines and traditions of the
primitive monophysites.

The history of the sect, ho