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Miaphysite is the correct term as this is the actual term used in St. Cyril's famous statement. Miaphysite connotating one composite nature in Jesus Christ, perfect God and perfect Man, not, as is often found in Catholic and Orthodox publications, one divine nature which consumes his human one which would be Monophysitism. The Oriental Churches condemn Eutyches and Monophysitism. While Miaphysite may still be consider inappropriate by those who suscribe to Chalcedon, condemning the Orientals as Monophysites was an error.

Fr. Deacon Lance

Just read the official list of representatives from the countries and churches. Wow! So many officials from Judaism, Buddhism, Islam, Sikh, Hindu.

Churches from Anglican, Lutheran, Methodist, Baptist, and Utrecht(!).

What a list.

Joe

Dear Father Deacon,
"Miaphysite" might arguably be a more exact term than Monophysite - but that doesn't make it useful as a term of identification. To take a relatively simple example, the "Mozarabic" liturgy has nothing much to do with the Moors, and the name does cause a bit of confusion, but referring to the "Visigothic" liturgy, although accurate, would cause much more confusion.


Dear Photius,

[I've no reason to consider you Atrocious. My last friend of the same name was often referred to as Ferocious Photius, though I don't think that he himself cared for this particular sobriquet!]

Come to think of it, I know a family who moved from South Africa to the USA, because their children would not have had much of a future in South Africa these days. Perhaps they should be encouraged to call themselves African-Americans! The results could be quite amusing, as well as driving home the point your Coptic friend enjoys.

African-Americans in Uganda? Can't say I've ever heard of any, which doesn't prove a thing, since I haven't heard of very many people who currently live in Uganda.

"Monophysite" is certainly more exact than "non-Chalcedonian". And I'm a bit skittish about it, because I'm not convinced that the Churches in question have genuinely abandoned Monophysitism.
I do indeed share your penchant for the use of "Mohammedan", for several reasons - one of which is that this movement is indeed founded by Mohammed (or Mahomet), and another of which is that "Muslim" implies something that I do not believe. "Islamist" is beyond the pale of decent English.

I'm aware of a few Greek-Catholic parishes that serve the Triumph of Orthodoxy.


"Reading back what I've just written, it's a bit muddled. Unfortunately, so is the point involved. That's life with linguistics!" - Yea, verily, that's life with linguistics.

Incognitus [/QB][/QUOTE]