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Ecthesis

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 333 words | Copyright

Ecthesis (Gk. ἤκθεσις, ‘a statement of faith’). The formula issued in 638 by the Emp. Heraclius forbidding the mention of ‘energies’, whether one or two, in the Person of Christ and asserting that the two Natures were united in a single Will. See MONOTHELITISM.

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