DyotheleteDyotheliteadj.n.
/dʌɪˈɒθɪliːt//dʌɪˈɒθɪlʌɪt/ Theology.
A. adj.
Holding the doctrine that Christ had two wills, a divine and a human.
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1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1560 The dyothelite views were defended by the Roman legates.
B. n.
A holder of this doctrine; an opponent of monotheletism (Monotheletism n.).
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1848 S. Davidson tr. Gieseler Eccl. Hist. II. 174 The doctrines of the Duothelites and Monothelites.
Derivatives
Dyotheˈletian adj. of or relating to the Dyotheletes.
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1887 A. F. Heard Russ. Church & Russ. Dissent i. 2 The monotheletian patriarchs and the dyotheletian popes mutually anathematized each other.
Dyotheˈletic adj. (also Dyotheˈlitic)
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1882 A. Cave & J. S. Banks tr. I. A. Dorner Syst. Christ. Doctr. III. 220 The decision of the Dyothelitic Council of the year 680: ‘The human will remains in unity with the Divine, because it is always determined by the omnipotent drawing of the Logos’.
1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 458 [Impersonality of human nature of Christ] seems inconsistent with the dyotheletic theory.
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Dyotheˈletical adj. = Dyotheletic adj.
Dyˈotheletism n. the doctrine that Christ had two wills.
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1860 A. Edersheim tr. J. H. Kurtz Hist. Christian Church I. §82. 8 After that [ a.d. 680] Dyotheletism was universally received as orthodox doctrine.
dyˈothelism n. = Dyotheletism n.
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1883 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. II. 1560 The doctrine of two wills in Christ, dyothelism, was formally defined and accepted by a synod of the Lateran (649).
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