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Monophysite doctrine had been condemned as a heresy by the Council of Chalcedon in 451, and the tolerant policies towards Monophysitism of Zeno and Anastasius I had been a source of tension in the relationship with the bishops of Rome.
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Monophysite and doctrine
Near the end of his life, Justinian became ever more inclined towards the Monophysite doctrine, especially in the form of Aphthartodocetism, but he died before being able to issue any legislation which would have elevated its teachings to the status of dogma.
Of Jacob's prose works, which are not nearly so numerous, the most interesting are his letters, which throw light upon some of the events of his time and reveal his attachment to the Monophysite doctrine which was then struggling for supremacy in the Syrian churches, and particularly at Edessa, over the opposite teaching of Nestorius.
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Justinian entered the arena of ecclesiastical statecraft shortly after his uncle's accession in 518, and put an end to the Monophysite schism that had prevailed between Rome and Constantinople since 483.
The serious blunder that he had made at the beginning by abetting a severe persecution of the Monophysite bishops and monks and thereby embittering the population of vast regions and provinces, he remedied eventually.
The split with the emperor and the patriarch of Constantinople was inevitable, from the western point of view, because they had embraced a view of a single, Divine (" Monophysite ") nature of Christ, which was a Christian heresy.
But Conon and Eugenius had to dispute in the reign of Justin II ( 565-78 ) in the presence of the Catholic patriarch John Scholasticus ( 565-77 ), with two champions of the moderate Monophysite party, Stephen and Paul, the latter afterward Patriarch of Antioch.
This compromise adopted the Chalcedonian belief that Christ had two natures, but tried to address Monophysite misgivings by the view that Christ had one " energy ".
A considerable number of Monophysite bishops from all parts of the East, including Theodosius of Alexandria, Anthimus the deposed patriarch of Constantinople, Constantius of Laodicea, John of Egypt, Peter and others, who had come to Constantinople in the hope of mitigating the displeasure of the emperor and increasing the sympathies of Theodora, were held by Justinian in one of the imperial fortresses under house arrest.
Timothy Aelurus, the Monophysite who made himself the Patriarch of Alexandria and was later chased from the Patriarchate by order of the Roman emperor, had obtained leave to come to Constantinople, intending, by a pretence of Ecumenisim, to re-establish himself on his throne.
At the time of the Arab conquest of the Rashidun, the region had been inhabited mainly by local Aramaic-speaking Monophysite Christian peasants ( like the Mardaites and Byzantine Christians or Melchites ), Ghassanid and Nabatean Arabs, as well as minorities of Jews, Samaritans and Ismaelite Itureans.
The Arab tribes that settled Jund Filastin after the Muslim conquest were the Lakhm, Kindah, Qais, Amilah, Judham and the Kinanah ; at the time of the Arab conquest, the region had been inhabited mainly by Aramaic-speaking Monophysite Christian peasants.
Thus in 542, following two decades of persecutions which had decapitated the Monophysite leadership, he appealed for the appointment of new Monophysite bishops in Syria to the Empress Theodora, whose own Monophysite leanings were well-known.
The fierce Christological disputes of the period saw the Monophysites, who rejected the divine nature of Christ, objecting to the depiction of his body on the cross, and this influenced the use of the empty cross, especially in Byzantine-controlled areas such as Ravenna, where several of the Emperors had Monophysite sympathies.
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They may have been joined by dissident or rebelling northern Christians who felt their interpretations of ritual, sacred texts and traditions of art represented a more ancient Israelite connection than Orthodox Monophysite Christianity itself.
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Empress Theodora sought to win him as a confederate to revenge the deposition of the Monophysite Patriarch Anthimus I of Constantinople by Agapetus and also to gain aid for her efforts in behalf of the Monophysites.
He appeased, quite successfully, both Chalcedonian and Monophysite Christians by the use of strategic appointments and the easing of persecutions.
Paul's rehabilitation caused great indignation among the Copts at Alexandria, who clamoured for his deposition, which was carried into effect by Peter, the intruded patriarch, in violation of all canonical order ; the patriarch of Antioch ( Paul's position in the Monophysite communion ) owning no allegiance to the patriarch of Alexandria.
His view of events is everywhere characterized by his belief in overruling Providence ; and as he eulogizes Flavian II, the Chalcedonian patriarch of Antioch, in warmer terms than those in which he praises his great Monophysite contemporaries, Jacob of Serugh and Philoxenus of Mabbog, he was probably an orthodox Catholic.
The Monophysite belief was not held by the miaphysites as they stated that Jesus was out of two natures in one nature called, the " Incarnate Logos of God ".
First Persia conquered parts of Byzantium, which were populated mostly by Monophysite and Chalcedonian Christians.
But unlike the Greek, the ' Common Syriac Version ', a translation of the Gnostic chapters of Evagrius by the Monophysite Philoxenus, was void of the specific Origenist-Evagrian Christology.
The first recorded mention of it is in a work by the 6th-century John of Ephesus, who decries its hostility to Monophysite missionaries traveling to Alodia.
Nobadia was converted to Monophysite Christianity by the priests Julian and Longinus, and thereafter received its bishops from the pope of Alexandria.
The Byzantine clients, the Arab Ghassanids, converted to the Monophysite form of Christianity, which was regarded as heretical by the established Byzantine Orthodox Church.
His Codex Encyclicus, compiled at the urging of Cassiodorus, collects and translates letters addressed by different synods to the Emperor Leo I in defence of the decrees of the Council of Chalcedon against the Monophysite Timotheus Aelurus.
Javakhishvili explains this conflict on account of doctrinal differences between the Monophysite Vakhtang and Diophysite Mikel, a presumption supported by Toumanoff, who points out, that the change of prelate and his subordination to Antioch could " only imply acceptance of Zeno's formulary of faith ", i. e., the moderately Monophysite Henotikon of 482.
Here there was a highly developed Jewish community, and separate Monophysite and Nestorian Christian communities, and during the late Sassanian period the rulers experimented with arrangements by which efforts were made to ensure the loyalty of the population by granting military protection and some degree of religious toleration in return for the payment of taxes.
A rearrangement and abridgment of the work was made by the great Monophysite author Bar-Hebraeus ( 1226 – 1286 ), who expunged or garbled much of its unorthodox teaching.
Monophysite and Council
The Council of Chalcedon gave rise to the first major schism in Christian history, the Monophysite schism.
After the Council of Chalcedon, the Monophysite controversy ( together with institutional, political, and growing nationalistic factors ) led to a lasting schism between the Oriental Orthodox churches, on the one hand, and the Western and the Eastern Orthodox churches on the other.
* In 451 those who accepted the Council of Chalcedon similarly classified those who rejected it as Monophysite heretics.
The Churches that refused to accept the Council considered instead that it was they who were orthodox ; they reject the description Monophysite, preferring instead Miaphysite.
In contrast to his Byzantine overlords, Harith was a staunch Monophysite and rejected the Council of Chalcedon.
Monophysite and policies
* July 9 – Emperor Anastasius I dies childless at Constantinople, age 88, after an 27-year reign in which he has abolished the sale of offices, reformed taxation, perfected the empire's monetary system, but antagonized some with his heretical Monophysite religious policies.
Monophysite and Zeno
Zeno wishes to placate the Monophysite churches of Egypt, Palestine and Syria for political reasons.
While living in Antioch with his family, Zeno sympathised with the Monophysite views of Peter the Fuller, and supported him against his opponent, the Chalcedonian bishop Martyrius.
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* Byzantine troops drive the extremist Monophysite party out of Alexandria and establish Theodosius I as patriarch of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
* Patriarch Anthimus I of Constantinople, a Monophysite patriarch of Constantinople from 535-536
Monophysite and tension
The tension was a result of Monophysite Christian attempts to prevent the return of the Patriarch of Jerusalem, Juvenal, to his episcopal see.
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While these characteristics fit a Monophysite framework, a slight majority of scholars consider that Ignatius was waging a polemic on two distinct fronts, one Jewish, the other docetic, while a distinct minority holds that he is concerned with a group that commingled Judaism and docetism.
It is true that there is an alleged letter from the pope to the deposed Monophysite patriarchs, Anthimus, Severus, and Theodosius, in which the pope agrees with the views of the Monophysites.
Whole districts of Syria and the adjacent countries were thus deprived of their pastors, and the Monophysite were threatened with gradual extinction.
In any case, he enjoyed the emperor's favor until the death of the latter in 565 and ( as he himself tells us ) was entrusted with the administration of the entire revenues of the Monophysite Church.
About 571 John III the Scholasticus, the orthodox or Chalcedonian patriarch, began ( with the sanction of the emperor ) a rigorous persecution of the Monophysite Church leaders, and John was among those who, ironically, suffered most.
The Three-Chapter Controversy came out of an attempt to reconcile the Non-Chalcedonian ( Monophysite ) Christians of the Middle East with the Catholic Church.
The royal physician Gabriel of Shiggar, a staunch Monophysite, suggested to make Henana of Adiabene or one of his students Catholicos, and also used his influence with the king to prevent an election.
The fifth Ghassanid ruler of that name, he reigned from circa 528 to 569 and played a major role in the wars with Persia and the affairs of the Monophysite Syriac Church.
The West Syrian rite was associated with the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch, also known as the Monophysite or Jacobite Church.
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