- Nestorius (381 - 450)
- Bishop of Constantinople
- Distinguished between human nature and divine nature
- Argued that the Godhead joined with a human
- Did not call Mary “Mother of God” (“theotokus”)
- Jesus was human - his acts and suffering were part of his human nature
- A God cannot be a baby
- Agreed that Christ was divine
- Divine nature cannot be born to a woman
- Assyrian Church denounced Nestorius as a heretic
- Cyril of Alexandria (patriarch) condemned Nestorius’s work
- Issued twelve anathemas against him
- Stripped Nestorius of his position and exiled him
- Most of his works were burned - only the doctrine of Nestorianism survived and became the basis of Dyophysite teachings
- Theodore of Mopsuestia (350-428)
- Theodore of Mopsuestia (350-428)
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- One of the greatest Nestorian Writers
- Studied Greek and theological subjects
- Sided with the Nestorians against the Monophysites in a controversy
- Expelled from Edessa after the death of their patron, Ibas
- Founded the Nestorian school of Nisibis
- Work comprises commentaries on the Bible explaining baptism and Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, poems, hymns, sermons, and instructions
- Many of his works were perished
- Bar Sauma (1260-1313)
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