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)
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nestorianism::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | heresy, theological doctrine, unorthodoxy |
Examples of nestorianism
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Nestorianism and Roman Catholicism also enjoyed a period of toleration.
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Nestorianism became a distinct sect following the Nestorian Schism, beginning in the 430s.
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Nestorianism was officially anathematized, a ruling reiterated at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
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Nestorianism in the east and Monophysitism in the west.
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Nestorianism is a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428-431.
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Nestorianism and Manichaeism spread to the Tarim Basin and into China but they never became an established majority religion.
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Nestorianism is a form of dyophysitism, and can be seen as the antithesis to monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism.
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Nestorianism did not necessarily oppose the divinity of Christ, but it did assert that the divinity of Christ was separate from the person born of Mary.
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Nestorianism has come to mean dyaphysitism, in which Christ's dual natures are eternally separate, though it is doubtful whether Nestorius ever taught such a doctrine.
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- 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)
- (nestorian) relating to Nestorius or Nestorianism
- (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...
- 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
- (Nestorian) Version of Christianity banned by Roman and Byzantium churches. Influential in medieval central Asia and China.
- (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)
- (Nestorians) One person, two hypostases, two natures.
