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nestorian::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | follower |
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| Derivation | nestorius |
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Nestorian Christianity entered the area, but was never more than a minority faith.
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Nestorian Christianity, for one, flourished under Mongol rule before dying out under the Ming.
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Nestorian missionary enterprise, the story of a church on fire.
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Nestorian Christianity also had followers among the Uighurs.
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Nestorian Christianphysicians from the 7th, 8th, and 9th centuries, spanning 6 generations and 250 years.
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Nestorian Christians were received there, and brought Syriac translations of Greek works in medicine and philosophy.
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Nestorian was not the name by which the church knew itself., nor was it so commonly designated in Asian lands.
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Nestorian and Jacobite theologians, philosophers, and men of letters soon became the teachers of the conquering Arabs, and the pioneers of Islamo-Arabic science, civilization, and learning.
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Nestorian physicians became the attending physicians of the court, and the Nestorian patriarch and his numerous bishops were regarded in Asia as second to none in power and authority.
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- Relating to Nestorius or Nestorianism
- (nestorianism) the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God)
- (nestorius) Syrian who was a Christian bishop and Patriarch of Constantinople in the early fifth century; one of the major heresies concerning the doctrine of the hypostasis of Christ was named after him (died in 451)
- (Nestorians) The Church of the East, also known as the Nestorian Church, is a Christian church, part of the Syriac tradition of Eastern Christianity. Originally the church of the Persian Sassanid Empire, it quickly spread widely through Asia. ...
- Nestorius (/u02CCnu025Bsu02C8tu0254u02D0riu0259s/; in Greek: u039Du03B5u03C3u03C4u03CCu03C1u03B9u03BFu03C2; c. 386u00A0u2013 450) was Archbishop of Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) from 10 April 428 until August 431, when the emperor Theodosius II confirmed his condemnation by the Council of Ephesus on 22 June...
- (Nestorianism) The heterodox religious beliefs of the followers of Nestorius. These included that Christ has two natures, one wholly human and one wholly divine, that Mary was the mother of his human nature, and that each is to be worshiped as God
- (Nestorianism) States that the two natures of Christ were so separated from each other that they were "not in contact"; the problem here is that worship of the human Jesus would then not be allowed. (See Hypostatic Union Nestorianism and Eutychianism.)
- (Nestorianism) Residing in Christ are two separate natures and two separate persons, one divine and one human.
- (Nestorians) A Christian sect found in Asia; tended to support Islamic invasions of this area in preference to Byzantine rule; cut off from Europe by Muslim invasions. (p. 488)
