I took this quiz far too seriously. And the result is unexpected. I mean, I actually answered the question about hypostasis the other way. But then, if I think about it, it sort of fits with my nearly panentheistic view of divinity. So I guess this works. And besides, I really only understand half of this. Like, maybe half... I took this quiz far too seriously. (And I probably totally boned the bit about Scandinavian composers.) Final Result: Monophysitism You are Monophysitism! Monophysitism (literally, one-nature-ism) taught that Christs human and divine natures were not distinct but dissolved together into a single hybrid nature; it is also known as Eutychianism after its most famous proponent, the fifth-century abbot Eutyches. Monophysite beliefs emerged as a reaction against the earlier heresy of Nestorian, which taught that Christs divine and human natures remained wholly separate. Eutychian beliefs were condemned at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, which embraced a dyophysite position: Christs human and divine natures, while remaining distinct, formed an inseparable and indivisible union within a single person and substance (Greek: hypostasis). The Chalcedonian belief in a hypostatic union of Christs two natures is shared by Catholic, Orthodox and most Protestant churches, representing a consensus position that denies the extremes of both Monophysite and Nestorian Christology. Although Monophysite beliefs were officially condemned at Chalcedon, the Monophysite controversy led to a schism which separated the so-called Oriental Orthodox churches from the remainder of Christendom, including the modern-day Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Syriac, Malankara Syrian, and Armenian churches. While these churches reject the authority of the council of Chalcedon, they deny that their doctrine is formally heretical in the sense taught by Eutyches, and often strongly object to the characterization of their beliefs as monophysite.
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