re question about virgin mary in article may athos rutgers edu db n andrew cmu edu d andrew byler writes and it should be noted that the monophysite chruches of egypt and syria also hold to this belief as part of divine revelation even though they broke away from the unity of the chruch in ad by rejecting the council of chalcedon it might be argued by some protestants that the catholics and orthodox made this belief up but the monophysites put a big hole in that notion as they also hold the belief and they split from the chruch before the belief was first annunciated in writing as far as is known much has been lost from the time of the fathers the belief that the churches of egypt and syria were or are monophysite is false as is the belief that they often held that the council of chalcedon was nestorian these misunderstandings were exacerbated by political factors and thus led to schism a schism that is on its way to being healed steve hayes department of missiology editorial department univ of south africa p o box pretoria south africa internet hayesstw risc unisa ac za fidonet steve hayes p f n z fidonet org faq missiology is the study of christian mission and is part of the faculty of theology at unisa
