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Definition: Nestorianism from Collins English Dictionary

n

1 the doctrine that Christ was two distinct persons, divine and human, implying a denial that the Virgin Mary was the mother of God. It is attributed to Nestorius and survives in the Iraqi Church

› Nesˈtorian n, adj


Nestorianism

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Christian heresy that held Jesus to be two distinct persons, closely and inseparably united. In 428, Emperor Theodosius II named an abbot of Antioch, Nestorius (d. 451?), as patriarch of Constantinople. In that year Nestorius, who had been a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia , outraged the Christian world by opposing the use of the title Mother of God for the Virgin on the grounds that, while the Father begot Jesus as God, Mary bore him as a man. This view was contradicted by Cyril, patriarch of Alexandria, and both sides appealed to Pope Celestine I. The Council of Ephesus (see Ephesus, Council of ) was convened in 431 to settle the matter. This council (reinforced by the Council of Chalcedon in 451) clarified orthodox Catholic doctrine, pronouncing that Jesus, true God and true man, has two distinct natures that are inseparably joined in one person and partake of the one divine substance. Nestorius, deposed after the Council of Ephesus, was sent to Antioch, to Arabia, and finally to…
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From Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
The term ‘Nestorian’ is used pejoratively to refer to the theology of those Christians who reject the decisions of the Council of Ephesus , where Nestorius ( ca 385 – ca 450) was deposed from the patriarchate of Constantinople and the two-nature (‘dyophysite’) Christology associated with him…
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Full text Article Nestorianism

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
Christian heresy that held Jesus to be two distinct persons, closely and inseparably united. In 428, Emperor Theodosius II named an abbot of Antioch, Nestorius (d. 451?), as patriarch of Constantinople. In that year Nestorius, who had been a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia , outraged the Christian…
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From The Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia with Atlas and Weather Guide
Christian doctrine held by the Syrian ecclesiastic Nestorius (died c. 451), patriarch of Constantinople 428–431. He asserted that Jesus had two natures, human and divine. He was banished for maintaining that Mary was the mother of the man Jesus only, and therefore should not be called the mother of…
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Full text Article Nestorian monasticism

From Dictionary of World Monasticism
The Nestorian Church was a Syrian rite Christian church that believed in the teachings of Nestorius (ca. 351–ca. 451) that the human and spiritual nature of Christ were separate (dyophysite) rather than fused (monophysite) in accordance with the orthodox Byzantine view. The Nestorian monastics had…
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Full text Article Nestorian Church

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
officially the Assyrian Church of the East, Christian community of Iraq, Iran, and SW India. It represents the ancient church of Persia and is sometimes also called the East Syrian Church. It numbers about 175,000, including emigrants to the United States. It has much in common with other Eastern…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Member of a Christian sect that originated in Asia Minor and Syria in the 5th century ad , inspired by the views of Nestorius . Nestorians stressed the independence of Christ’s divine and human natures. Nestorian scholars played a prominent role in the formation of Arab culture after the Arab…
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Full text Article NESTORIUS – NESTORIANISM

From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
In April 428 Nestorius was consecrated bishop of * Constantinople . Born ca. 381 (although the date is uncertain) in Germanicia (* Syria ), of Antiochene education, perhaps a pupil of * Theodore of Mopsuestia, he was a monk and then priest in the Syrian metropolis. His election as patriarch was…
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Nestorius is the bishop associated with the Assyrian Church established in the realm of the Persian Sassanid Empire. Nestorius has been called a heretic, but most likely his theological rivals misunderstood him; moreover, he is sometimes viewed as the father of the Assyrian Church (Nestorian…
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Full text Article TIMOTHY I, Nestorian (ca. 727–823)

From Encyclopedia of Ancient Christianity
Born in 727 or 728 at Hazza (near * Arbela , in Iraq) and educated by the monk Abraham bar Dašandāt, he succeeded his uncle George in the episcopate of Beit Bagas, and in 779 he was able with a few maneuvers to be elected * catholicos , but it took two years to get himself recognized and to make…
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