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Monoenergism
The heresy that Christ has only one operation — the precursor to Monothelitism, also condemned.
Monoenergism (from monos, one, and energeia, operation) was the position that Christ has only one operation or activity — a formula proposed as a compromise between Chalcedonian orthodoxy and Monophysitism before Monothelitism was explicitly formulated. If Christ acts with only one operation, the question of whether he has one or two wills is sidestepped. St. Sophronius of Jerusalem and St. Maximus the Confessor opposed this as strenuously as Monothelitism, recognizing that one operation implies one will, and one will implies one nature — which returns to Monophysitism.