Cape Agulhas
Cape Agulhas [Port.,=needles], Western Cape province, South Africa; the southernmost point of Africa. Its name refers to the saw-edged reefs and sunken rocks that run out to sea and make navigation hazardous. A powerful lighthouse on the cape alerts ships. The meridian of Cape Agulhas, long. 20° E, is used to divide the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
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Reclaiming our Roots: An Inclusive Introduction to Church History, vol. 1, The Late First Century to the Eve of the Reformation; vol. 2, From Martin Luther to Martin Luther King, Jr.
Magazine article from: Church History; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...christological issues most Eastern and Western churches have regarded as settled (was pope Honorius perhaps right in defending Monotheletism despite his condemnation at the Third Council of Constantinople? [1:180]) reflects this subjective idea of what...
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Maximus the Confessor
Magazine article from: Anglican Theological Review; 4/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...harrowing political collapse and profound social transformation, Maximus produced comprehensive refutations of Origenism and Monotheletism-the latter denying the presence of a human will in the Savior, thereby truncating his humanity and undermining the basis...
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Maximus the Confessor and his Companions
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review; 10/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...an effort to bring together the dyophysite and monophysite tendencies within the imperial church; and second, that of monotheletism, which evolved out of the former and was eventually adopted by the government of Constans II in the mid-640's. The...
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The Byzantine and Early Islamic Near East, vol. 1: Problems in the Literary Source Material, vol. 1.
Magazine article from: The Journal of the American Oriental Society; 4/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...Literature," points out the correlation between this increased output and the doctrinal controversies of Monophysitism and Monotheletism which racked the Christian world in the sixth and seventh centuries and which formed the backdrop to the emergence and growth...
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Monotheletism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Monotheletism or Monothelitism [Gr.,=one will...intent of the Council of Chalcedon. Monotheletism was first proposed in 622 and was...published the Ecthesis, which defined Monotheletism as the official imperial form of Christianity...
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Third Council of Constantinople
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...convoked by Byzantine Emperor Constantine IV to deal with Monotheletism . The council was attended by more than 150 bishops from...it was presided over by the papal legates. It condemned Monotheletism very clearly by defining the orthodox faith as the acceptance...
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Honorius I
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and the British Isles, and he did a great deal to reform the education of the clergy. In the course of the dispute over Monotheletism , he was asked as pope for an opinion on its orthodoxy. In reply he wrote a letter using the words "one will" to express...
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Christ
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...Dyophysitism . —Monophysite , n., adj. —Monophysitic, Monophysitical , adj. Monothelitism, Monotheletism a heretical position of the 7th century that Christ’s human will had been superseded by the divine. Also Monothelism...
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Maronites
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...The Maronites have been a distinct community since the 7th cent., when they separated in the doctrinal dispute over Monotheletism ; they returned to communion with the pope in the 12th cent. In the 19th cent., massacres of Maronites by the Druze brought...
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