Melkitism

English

Etymology

From Melkite +‎ -ism.

Noun

Melkitism (uncountable)

1. (historical, rare) Support for the imperial Byzantine church and the Council of Chalcedon during the Monophysite controversies from the 5th century onwards.
   • 1973, The Tablet‎^[1], volume 227, page 877:

     That this is less true of the Syriac tradition may be attributed to the Nestorian Christians’ preference for Muslim rule and culture as opposed to the Melkitism proposed by Constantinople.

   • 2013, Sabri Yılmaz, “A Muslim theologian’s approach to the doctrine of the Trinity: The case of Qadi ‘Abd al-Jabbar”, in The Journal of International Social Research, volume 6, number 24, page 427, note 3:

     Melkitism is known to be the form of Christianity which was to be divided into Catholic and Orthodox churches.

   • 2015, Adeshina Afolayan, “Egypt, Arab Republic of (Ǧumhūriyyat Miṣr al-ʿArabiyyah)”, in edited by Toyin Falola and Daniel Jean-Jacques, Africa: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Society, volume 2, →ISBN, page 382:

     The acceptance of Arab conquest served as a means of escaping the doctrinal predicament that most Egyptians found themselves enmeshed in between monophysitism and melkitism.