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From the Agreed Statement - Cairo 2014 (Anglican - Oriental Orthodox Dialogue)
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The term ‘monophysite’, which has been falsely used to describe the Christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, is both misleading and offensive as it implies Eutychianism. Anglicans, together with the wider oikumene, use the accurate term ‘miaphysite’ to refer to the Cyrilline teaching of the family of Oriental Orthodox Churches, and furthermore call each of these Churches by their official title of ‘Oriental Orthodox’. The teaching of this family confesses not a single nature but one incarnate united divine-human nature of the Word of God. To say ‘a single nature’ would be to imply that the human nature was absorbed in his divinity, as was taught by Eutyches.
https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/103502/anglican-oriental-orthodox-agreed-statement-on-christology-cairo-2014.pdf
@ 7
The term ‘monophysite’, which has been falsely used to describe the Christology of the Oriental Orthodox Churches, is both misleading and offensive as it implies Eutychianism. Anglicans, together with the wider oikumene, use the accurate term ‘miaphysite’ to refer to the Cyrilline teaching of the family of Oriental Orthodox Churches, and furthermore call each of these Churches by their official title of ‘Oriental Orthodox’. The teaching of this family confesses not a single nature but one incarnate united divine-human nature of the Word of God. To say ‘a single nature’ would be to imply that the human nature was absorbed in his divinity, as was taught by Eutyches.
https://www.anglicancommunion.org/media/103502/anglican-oriental-orthodox-agreed-statement-on-christology-cairo-2014.pdf
I am hoping in some small way that this may help this discussion. I fear that sometimes we treat the Councils as being very theological and forget that in some way they were also a little bit political (and I apologise for those who shocked by the idea that political machinations could find their way into the Church). The Council at Ephesus had limited representation from Antioch and although they agreed to the outcomes there was some tension in the air, and subsequently at the Council of Chalcedon it is likely that Alexandria's participation was somewhat limited and that decisions were taken before the case was put.
In reality the differentiantiation between the Chalcedonian Christology and OO Christology is so fine as very few in the west can do more than wonder that it is enough for division.
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