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Nestorius emphasized the dual natures of Christ, trying to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.
Consequently, Nestorius argued that the Virgin Mary should be called Christotokos, Greek for " Birth Giver of Christ ", and not Theotokos, Greek for " Birth Giver of God ".
Nestorius tried to find a middle ground between those that emphasized the fact that in Christ God had been born as a man, insisted on calling the Virgin Mary Theotokos ( Greek: Θεοτόκος, " God-bearer "), and those that rejected that title because God as an eternal being could not have been born.
The Archbishop of ConstantinopleNestorius, having asserted that Mary ought not to be referred to as the " Mother of God " ( Theotokos in Greek, literally " God-bearer "), was denounced as a heretic ; in combating this assertion of Patriarch Nestorius, Eutyches declared that Christ was " a fusion of human and divine elements ", causing his own denunciation as a heretic twenty years after the First Council of Ephesus at the 451 AD Council of Chalcedon.
In the late 420s the newly appointed patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius, and a presbyter named Anasthasius ( both from Antioch ) had been preaching on the Greek word theotókos (“ mother of God ”) as it is used referring to Mary, mother of Jesus ; they were imploring the people that Mary should not be worshiped or referred to as such.
Theotokos is the Greek title of Mary, the mother of Jesus used historically by non-Ephesians followers of Nestorius.

Nestorius and ;
Nestorius argued that Mary was neither a " Mother of Man " nor " Mother of God " as these referred to Christ's two natures ; rather, Mary was the " Mother of Christ ".
Having fled to Egypt, Cyril bribed Theodosius ' courtiers, and sent a mob led by Dalmatius, a hermit, to besiege Theodosius ' palace, and shout abuse ; the Emperor eventually gave in, sending Nestorius into minor exile ( Upper Egypt ).
However, not all churches affiliated with the Church of the East appear to have followed Nestorian Christology ; indeed, the modern Assyrian Church of the East, which reveres Nestorius, does not follow all historically Nestorian doctrine.
Cyril had both theological and political reasons for attacking Nestorius ; on top of feeling that Nestorianism was an error against true belief, he also wanted to denigrate the head of a competing patriarchate.
Irenaeus the friend of Nestorius, with the cooperation of Theodoret, became bishop of Tyre, in spite of the protests of Dioscorus, Cyril's successor, who now turned specially against Theodoret ; and, by preferring the charge that he taught two sons in Christ, he secured the order from the court confining Theodoret to Cyrrhus.
According to McGuckin, several mid-twentieth century accounts have tended to " romanticise " Nestorius ; in opposition to this view, he asserts that Nestorius was no less dogmatic, uncompromising than Cyril and that he was fully just as prepared to use his political and canonical powers as Cyril or any of the other hierarchs of the period.
A number of bishops, who were undecided between Nestorius and Cyril, did not want to give Cyril, as one party in the dispute, the right to chair the meeting and decide the agenda ; however, they began to take Cyril's side for various reasons.
Cyril appealed to Celestine of Rome to make a decision on Nestorius ; and Celestine delegated to Cyril the job of excommunicating Nestorius if he did not change his teachings in ten days.
J. Barmby, Hormisdas made several demands: ( 1 ) The emperor should publicly announce his acceptance of the council of Chalcedon and the letters of Pope Leo ; ( 2 ) the Eastern bishops should make a similar public declaration, and in addition anathematize Nestorius, Eutyches, Dioscorus, Aelurus, Peter Mongus, Peter the Fuller, and Acacius, with all their followers ; ( 3 ) everyone exiled in this dispute should be recalled and their cases reserved for the judgment of the Apostolic See ; ( 4 ) those exiles who had been in communion with Rome and professed Catholicism should first be recalled ; and ( 5 ) bishops accused of having persecuted the orthodox should be sent to Rome to be judged.
One famous example is Nestorius, the Patriarch of Constantinople who so vigorously defended Jesus ' humanity that he undermined Jesus ' divinity ; A brief definition of Nestorian Christology can be given as: " Jesus Christ, who is not identical with the Son but personally united with the Son, who lives in him, is one hypostasis and one nature: human .".
He first came to notice in 431 at the First Council of Ephesus, for his vehement opposition to the teachings of Nestorius ; his condemnation of Nestorianism as heresy precipitated his being denounced as a heretic himself.
All other symbola or mathemata were excluded ; Eutyches and Nestorius were unmistakably condemned in an anathema, while the twelve chapters of Cyril of Alexandria were accepted.
A large proportion of the citizens held strongly to Nestorius ; the clergy, with one voice, agreed in the anathema.
He demanded of Macedonius a declaration of his faith in writing ; Macedonius addressed a memorandum to the emperor insisting that he knew no other faith than that of the Fathers of Nicaea and Constantinople, and that he anathematized Nestorius and Eutyches and those who admitted two Sons or two Christs, or who divided the two natures.
The conflict between the two bishops is described by historian Averil Cameron, " The issue was whether, and, if so, how, Christ had two natures ; the Monophysites held that he had only a divine nature, while Nestorius, and ' Nestorians ' after him, emphasized the human " Nestorius was an advocate of diminishing the influence of the Mother of God, or Theotokos, from the Church.
" The final word of the Council of Chalcedon was signed by 452 bishops, and it condemned the doctrines of both Nestorius and Eutyches, and developed both the doctrines of Cyril and Pope Leo I as one ; it finally made the Theotokos orthodox law.

Nestorius and 386
Nestorius was born in 386 in Germanicia in the Roman province of Syria ( now Kahramanmaraş in Turkey ).
** Nestorius ( c. 386 c. 451 ), Patriarch of Constantinople, 428-431
One such theory of how the human and divine interact in the person of Jesus was put forward by the Patriarch of Constantinople, Nestorius ( c. 386 451 ).

Nestorius and
* 435 Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
* 428 Nestorius becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
Nestorianism is a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 431.
Nestorius ' opponents found his teaching too close to the heresy of adoptionism the idea that Christ had been born a man who had later been " adopted " as God's son.
However, a number of churches, particularly those associated with the School of Edessa, supported Nestorius though not necessarily his doctrine and broke with the churches of the West.
The Church of the East was associated with the doctrine of Nestorianism, advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 431, which emphasized the disunion between the human and divine natures of Jesus.
* April 10 Nestorius is made patriarch of Constantinople.
* August 3 Emperor Theodosius II exiles Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople, to a monastery in the Libyan desert at the behest of his sister Pulcheria.
In the Bazaar, written towards the end of his life, Nestorius denies the heresy for which he was condemned and instead affirms of Christ " the same one is twofold " an expression that some consider similar to the formulation of the Council of Chalcedon.
Nestorius ' rejection of the term Theotokos (' God-bearer ', or ' Mother of God ') has traditionally been held as evidence that he asserted the existence of two persons not merely two natures in Jesus Christ, but there exists no evidence that Nestorius denied Christ's oneness.
* Seleznyov, Nikolai N., " Nestorius of Constantinople: Condemnation, Suppression, Veneration, With special reference to the role of his name in East-Syriac Christianity " in: Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 62: 3 4 ( 2010 ): 165 190.
On the death of Sisinnius, the famous Nestorius succeeded as Archbishop of Constantinople ( 428 431 ), and early in 429, on a festival of the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), Proclus preached his celebrated sermon on the Incarnation, which was later inserted in the beginning of the Acts of the Council of Ephesus.
Other famous residents of the early Christian period in the city ’ s history include Saint Auxentius ( d. 360 ), and Theodore, bishop from 392 428, the teacher of Nestorius.
The doctrine of Nestorianism is associated with Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople 428 431.
The normative Christology of the Assyrian church was written by Babai the Great ( 551 628 ) and is clearly distinct from the accusations directed toward Nestorius.
The normative Christology of the Assyrian church was written by Babai the Great ( 551 628 ) and is clearly distinct from the accusations directed toward Nestorius: his main christological work is called the ' Book of the Union ', and in it Babai teaches that the two qnome ( essences, or hypostases ) are unmingled but everlastingly united in the one parsopa ( personality ) of Christ.
# Theological History of the Doctrine of the Incarnation The Human and Divine Nature of Christ Enmity of the Patriarchs of Alexandria and Constantinople St. Cyril and Nestorius Third General Council of Ephesus Heresy of Eutyches Fourth General Council of Chalcedon Civil and Ecclesiastical Discord Intolerance of Justinian The Three Chapters The Monothelite Controversy State of the Oriental Sects I.

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