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Eutychianism
Monophysitism — Christ has one nature after the Incarnation, the human absorbed into the divine like a drop in the ocean.
Eutychianism holds that after the Incarnation Christ has only one nature — the divine — the human having been absorbed into it. Condemned at Chalcedon (451 AD). The four adverbs of the Chalcedonian Definition directly address Eutychianism: the natures are not confused or changed by their union. The Oriental Orthodox churches insist they affirm the full integrity of both natures in Cyril's formula rather than Eutyches's absorption.