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Added a diagram to represent Eutyches view of Christ's nature.
[[Image:Monophysite.png|right|200px|thumb|Eutyches asserted that human nature and divine nature were combined into the single nature of Christ]]
'''Monophysitism''' is a [[Christology|Christological]] [[heresy]] that originated in the 5th century A.D. Its chief proponent was the [[monk]] [[Eutyches]], who stated that in the person of [[Jesus Christ]] the human nature was absorbed into the divine nature like a cube of sugar dissolves in a cup of water. Therefore, Christ was left with only one nature, the Divine (Greek ''mono-'' one, ''physis'' - nature). This is to be contrasted with the [[miaphysitism]] which is professed by the [[Oriental Orthodox]] churches.
