Meanings
- historicalrareuncountableSupport for the imperial Byzantine church and the Council of Chalcedon during the Monophysite controversies from the 5th century onwards.
Melkitism is known to be the form of Christianity which was to be divided into Catholic and Orthodox churches.
2013, Sabri Yılmaz, “A Muslim theologian’s approach to the doctrine of the Trinity: The case of Qadi ‘Abd al-Jabbar”, in The Journal of International Social Research, volume 6, number 24, page 427, note 32 more examples
That this is less true of the Syriac tradition may be attributed to the Nestorian Christians’ preference for Muslim rule and culture as opposed to the Melkitism proposed by Constantinople.
1973, The Tablet, volume 227, page 877The acceptance of Arab conquest served as a means of escaping the doctrinal predicament that most Egyptians found themselves enmeshed in between monophysitism and melkitism.
2015, Adeshina Afolayan, “Egypt, Arab Republic of (Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah)”, in Toyin Falola, Daniel Jean-Jacques, editors, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, volume 2, →ISBN, page 382
Origin
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