Acephalite

English Etymology en la-lat acephalus en -ite, from en grc ἀκέφαλος headless, apparently referring to the movement’s refusal to accept the decisions of church councils. Noun en historical uncommon A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 ). en 1993 John C. Cavadini The Last Christology of the West: Adoptionism in Spain and Gaul, 785-820 0812231864 43 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=M1UrEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA43 nor does he charge Beatus or Heterius (that wild ass) with being a Eutychian, or a follower of Eutyches, or acephalite, or any other term recalling the monophysitism of the fifth century or its descendants. en 2012 Jamie Wood The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain: Religion and Power in the Histories of Isidore of Seville 9789004209909 212 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=uMA0Xod2PJoC&pg=PA212 The Greater Chronicle makes it clear that the roots of the Acefali lay in their failure to accept the Three Chapters of Chalcedon the Lesser Chronicle, 39, states simply that ‘The heresy of the Acephalites arose’ (my translation). en 2016 Synopsis Purioris Theologiae Riemer Faber 9789004324213 97 https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N-PDDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA97 Eutyches, who taught the opposite: that just there is one person so the natures are one in Christ, by confusing and intermingling the two natures. So too for that whole breed of Eutyches, the Monophysites, Monothelites, and Acephalites. en Christianity