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Monophysitism in the Coptic Church The Doctrines of Pope Shenouda III and Christological issues
Monophysitism the Egyptian scholar George Bebawi, says: "Dioscorus of Alexandria who rejected the Council of Chalcedon (451) made a huge mistake and I don #39;t know how we can correct it." The current situation of the Coptic Church is a consequence of this move by Dioscorus. But his decision was not abstracted from the context of Egypt in the fifth century. Historically, Egypt was a fertile land for the growth of different philosophical movements, including Gnosticism. Egypt also had a very strong nationalistic movement. After the schism in 451, the Coptic Church, and later the Syrian, expressed strong nationalist sentiments. Copts showed a clear enmity towards everything "Greek". This led to a sort of insulation from the Catholic Church, which was described by Copts as the church of the Emperor and so was labeled as Melkite. As a result of the Coptic rejection of the writings of the Fathers and anything related to Byzantium, the monastic movements in Egypt developed a spiritual alternative movement influenced by the Egyptian Gnostic philosophy which undermined the body and overlooked the fact of Christ #39;s complete incarnation. This shaped Oriental spirituality, with its Monophysite Christology. As explained in the previous articles, this expels deification and any sort of communion between God and man. That is why Severus of Antioch, in his explanation of Christology, refuses deification. Another influential factor with consequences for the Coptic Church was the Islamic ...From:TheMistAnchoriteViews:2 1ratingsTime:07:07More inEducation

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