Definition: The Monophysite heresy came about in response to an opposite heresy, the Nestorian Heresy. The Nestorians divided Christ into two people. The Monophysites believed the human nature of Christ was entirely subsumed in the divine; thus there was one personality and only one nature. Dioscurus, Patriarch of Alexandria, and Eutyches were the main teachers of Monophysitism.
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