Monothelitism

5 Minutes in Church History with Stephen Nichols

Ligonier Ministries

Christianity, History, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 12 May 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Does Jesus have one will since He is one person? Or does He have two wills because He is truly God and truly man? On this episode of 5 Minutes in Church History, Dr. Stephen Nichols describes an ancient heresy that was a challenge to Christ's humanity.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History. On this episode we are talking about monothelatism.
0:07.0	What is monothelatism? Why, of course this is the view of the monothelites.
0:12.0	I know that might not help you much, so let's get into this.
0:16.0	Monothelatism was a heresy in the early church that was dealt with at the sixth ecumenical council.
0:23.0	Now just to refresh our memory, let's walk through these seven ecumenical councils together.
0:29.0	All of these occurred, of course, before that split, that great,
0:34.0	split between the Church of the West and the Roman Catholic Communion and the Church of the East, the Orthodox Church.
0:40.0	The first council was at NYSEA in 325. The second ecumenical council was the first council of Constantinople in 381.
0:50.0	The third council was the council of Ephesus. It met in 431, followed by the fourth ecumenical council, the council of Calcedon in 451.
1:01.0	The fifth was the second council of Constantinople meeting in 553.
1:07.0	And the sixth council, as the one will be mentioning, the third council of Constantinople in 681.
1:14.0	And then the seventh ecumenical council, well this went back to the city where it all began.
1:19.0	The second council of NYSEA, and that was in 787.
1:24.0	Many of these church councils dealt with the issue of the identity of Jesus Christ and who Jesus Christ is.
1:33.0	And through these councils and the creeds, especially the Nicene Creed and the Calcedonian Creed,
1:40.0	we have this established Orthodox position based on the biblical teaching and a summary of the biblical teaching of the person of Christ that Jesus is truly human and truly divine.
1:55.0	Now the word truly or true there is important. Sometimes we will say that Jesus is 100% human and 100% divine or we'll say he's fully human and fully divine.
2:08.0	But the language of these councils and creeds is not quantitative, like 100% or fully.
2:14.0	The language is actually truly.
2:17.0	So the Nicene Creed tells us that Jesus is dayum verum de deo vero, true God from true God.
2:26.0	And when we go to the Calcedonian Creed, we read here that Jesus is dayum verum at hominum verum.
2:35.0	True deity and true humanity.
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