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Definition of Nestorianism
1. Noun. 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).
Definition of Nestorianism
1. n. The doctrines of the Nestorian Christians, or of Nestorius.
Definition of Nestorianism
1. Noun. (Christianity) 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. ¹
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Literary usage of Nestorianism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"He is clear in his expression, not because he is superficial, but because he has
thought clearly and deeply. He steers between nestorianism and ..."
2. A History of the Christian Church During the First Six Centuries by Samuel Cheetham (1905)
"nestorianism did not come to an end on the condemnation of its founder, though
Cyril and his party gained more and more the upper hand and won over both the ..."
3. China and Religion by Edward Harper Parker (1905)
"Confucian hostility to Buddhism at the time when nestorianism flourished.—The
Empress of China an ex- nun. — Favours corrupt Buddhism; no evidence that the ..."
4. History of the Church, from Its First Establishment to Our Own Times by Jodocus Adolph Birkhaeuser (1898)
"nestorianism—THIRD GENERAL COUNCIL OF ... Alexandrian and Antiochian schools,
which finally resulted in three new heresies, nestorianism, Monophysitism. and ..."
5. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1889)
"Origen condemned as a Monophysite, and the Three Chapters as the Sources of
nestorianism. ... nestorianism."
6. Dissertations on Subjects Connected with the Incarnation by Charles Gore (1907)
"In Christ 1 The real nestorianism of Theodore appears nowhere more clearly than
in the extracts given by Justinian from his work against Apollinarius. ..."
7. Short History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1892)
"... and excelled all others of the time in its vigorous vitality, and its power
to proiect itself into the later ages. It was nestorianism ..."
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