LALIBELA (ETHIOPIA)
Lalibela
was the refuge for one of Christianity’s most interesting heresies,
known as Monophysitism. This belief states that Christ was both
divine and human before his incarnation but that his divine nature
left his body and only reentered it after the Resurrection. First
professed at the 2nd Council of Ephesus in 449 AD and soon thereafter
condemned as heresy at the Council of Chalcedon in 451, Monophysitism
spread through Asia Minor into Africa and Ethiopia. In different
forms it survives today in the Syrian Orthodox church, the Armenian
church, the Coptic church of Egypt and Ethiopian Orthodoxy.
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