Monotheletism
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
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...immediately adopted by Byzantine Emperor Heraclius , for political reasons, as a compromise between Monophysitism and orthodoxy. The Eastern hierarchy, while doubtful of the dogma, tended to support Heraclius. In 631, Cyrus of Phasis, patriarch of...