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  1. Nestorianismnoun

    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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  1. Nestorianismnoun

    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.

  2. Etymology: From Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople (Consecrated 428).

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  1. nestorianism

    Nestorianism is a Christian theological doctrine that originated in the 5th century, named after Nestorius, the Archbishop of Constantinople. It emphasizes the disunion between the human and divine natures of Jesus Christ, asserting that they are two distinct persons and are not one combined nature. This doctrine was condemned by various church councils, notably the Council of Ephesus in 431. Nestorianism became a significant force in the Christian Church in Persia and spread as far as China and India.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Nestorianismnoun

    the doctrines of the nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius

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  1. Nestorianism

    Nestorianism is a Christological doctrine advanced by Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople from 428–431. The doctrine, which was informed by Nestorius's studies under Theodore of Mopsuestia at the School of Antioch, emphasizes the disunion between the human and divine natures of Jesus. Nestorius' teachings brought him into conflict with some other prominent church leaders, most notably Cyril of Alexandria, who criticized especially his rejection of the title Theotokos for the Virgin Mary. Nestorius and his teachings were eventually condemned as heretical at the First Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451, leading to the Nestorian Schism in which churches supporting Nestorius broke with the rest of the Christian Church. Afterward many of Nestorius' supporters relocated to Sassanid Persia, where they affiliated with the local Christian community, known as the Church of the East. Over the next decades the Church of the East became increasingly Nestorian in doctrine, leading it to be known alternately as the Nestorian Church. Nestorianism is a form of dyophysitism, and can be seen as the antithesis to monophysitism, which emerged in reaction to Nestorianism. Where Nestorianism holds that Christ had two loosely-united natures, divine and human, monophysitism holds that he had but a single nature, his human nature being absorbed into his 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." Both Nestorianism and monophysitism were condemned as heretical at the Council of Chalcedon. Monophysitism survived and developed into the Miaphysitism of the modern Oriental Orthodox churches.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of nestorianism in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

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    The numerical value of nestorianism in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3


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