Monothelitism or
monotheletism (from Greek μονοθελητισμός "doctrine of one will") is a particular teaching about how the divine and human relate in the person of
Jesus, known as a
Christological doctrine, that formally emerged in
Armenia and
Syria in 629. Specifically, monothelitism is the view that Jesus
Christ has two natures but only one will. This is contrary to the
Christology that Jesus Christ has two wills (human and divine) corresponding to his two natures (
dyothelitism). Monothelitism is a development of the
miaphysite or
monophysite position in the Christological debates. Formulated in 638, it enjoyed considerable popularity, even garnering patriarchal support, before being rejected and denounced as
heretical in 681 at the
Third Council of Constantinople.