Dyophysite

English

Etymology

From ecclesiastical Ancient Greek δυοϕυσῖται, from δύο (“two”) + ϕύσις (“nature”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /dʌɪˈɒfəzʌɪt/

Noun

Dyophysite (plural Dyophysites)

1. (theology) Someone who believes in the doctrine that there are ‘two natures’, human and divine, in Christ.
   • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 247:

     Monasteries among the Dyophysites were strengthened through the military success of the Sassanian Shah Khusrau II in areas of the Byzantine Empire along the eastern Mediterranean.

Antonyms

• Miaphysite, Monophysite