a Christian heresy of the 5th and 6th centuries that challenged the orthodox definition of the two natures (human and divine) in Jesus and instead believed there was a single divine nature
Christological doctrine that appeared after the Council of Chalcedon in 451 and opposed Chalcedon's declaration of two natures in Christ. The monophysites held that Christ had only one dominant nature, and it was the divine nature.
The Christian doctrine stating that Jesus Christ has only one nature, and that it is partly divine and partly human.
The belief that Christ has only once nature with both divine and human incorporated in him. - Compare with Dyophysitism. Gk: of one nature.
The doctrine that there is only one nature in Christ, which is divine (from the Greek words monos, "only one", and physis, "nature"). This view differed from the orthodox view, upheld by the Council of Chalcedon (451), that Christ had two natures, one divine and one human.
Doctrine which states that in Christ there is only a single and divine nature as opposed to the Orthodox view that Christ is both human and divine.
Monophysitism (from the Greek monos meaning 'one, alone' and physis meaning 'nature') is the christological position that Christ has only one nature, as opposed to the Chalcedonian position which holds that Christ has two natures, one divine and one human.