a denomination which arose in the fifth century, and were so
called from Eutyches, abbot of a certain convent of monks at
Constantinople. The Nestorians having explained the two natures in
Christ in such a manner as, in the opinion of many, to make them
equivalent to two persons, which was an evident absurdity, Eutyches, to
avoid this error, fell into the opposite extreme, and maintained that
there was only one nature in Jesus Christ, the divine nature, which,
according to him, had so entirely swallowed up the human, that the
latter could not be distinguished. Hence it was inferred that according
to this system our Lord had nothing of humanity but the appearance.
called from Eutyches, abbot of a certain convent of monks at
Constantinople. The Nestorians having explained the two natures in
Christ in such a manner as, in the opinion of many, to make them
equivalent to two persons, which was an evident absurdity, Eutyches, to
avoid this error, fell into the opposite extreme, and maintained that
there was only one nature in Jesus Christ, the divine nature, which,
according to him, had so entirely swallowed up the human, that the
latter could not be distinguished. Hence it was inferred that according
to this system our Lord had nothing of humanity but the appearance.