Meanings
- uncountableChristianityThe doctrine of two wills (human and divine) in Christ.
From that day, dyothelism became the official doctrine of the Orthodox Church, both in the East and in the West; and in the eighth century it found a most subtle expounder in John of Damascus.
1891, Philip Schaff, Samuel Macauley Jackson, David Schley Schaff, A Religious Encyclopaedia2 more examples
Two years later Anastasius II reinstituted dyothelism, and the same bishops who had two years before vetoed dyothelism now changed their mind, and adopted it as the only true exposition of faith !
1894, John McClintock, James Strong, Cyclopaedia of Biblical, Theological, and Ecclesiastical LiteratureFinally, the concept of divine adoption becomes a controlling feature of the theology of deification in Maximus, due to his concern to maintain dyothelism in christology, as well as in ascetic anthropology.
2002, Nicholas V. Sakharov, I Love, Therefore I Am: The Theological Legacy of Archimandrite Sophrony, →ISBN
Translations
Italian duotelismo, ditelismo
- duotelismotheological doctrine
- ditelismotheological doctrine
Polish dioteletyzm
- dioteletyzmtheological doctrine
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