Acephalite

Definitions

A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).

historical, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] nor does he charge Beatus or Heterius (that wild ass) with being a Eutychian, or a follower of Eutyches, or acephalite, or any other term recalling the monophysitism of the fifth century or its descendants.”

“The Greater Chronicle […] makes it clear that the roots of the Acefali lay⟳ in their failure to accept⟳ the Three Chapters of Chalcedon […] the Lesser Chronicle, 39, states simply that ‘The heresy of the Acephalites arose’ (my translation).”

“Eutyches, who taught the opposite: that just there is one person so the natures are one in Christ, by confusing and intermingling the two natures. So too for that whole breed⟳ of Eutyches, the Monophysites, Monothelites, and Acephalites.”

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