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NestorianNestorian Nes*to"ri*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.)
An adherent of Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople to the
fifth century, who has condemned as a heretic for maintaining
that the divine and the human natures were not merged into
one nature in Christ (who was God in man), and, hence, that
it was improper to call Mary the mother of Christ; also, one
of the sect established by the followers of Nestorius in
Persia, india, and other Oriental countries, and still in
existence. opposed to Eutychian. Nestorian
Nestorian Nes*to"ri*an, a.
1. Of or relating to the Nestorians.
2. relating to, or resembling, Nestor, the aged warior and
counselor mentioned by Homer; hence, wise; experienced;
aged; as, Nestorian caution.
Meaning of Nestorian from wikipedia
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Nestorianism is a term used in
Christian theology and
Church history to
refer to
several mutually related but
doctrinarily distinct sets of teachings....
- the
Persian Church, the ****yrian Church, the
Babylonian Church or the
Nestorian Church, is one of
three major branches of
Eastern Nicene Christianity...
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Nestorian relates to
Nestorianism, a
Christological doctrine developed by Nestorius,
leading to the
Nestorian controversy and
Nestorian Schism; it was...
- The
Nestorian schism (a.d. 431–544) was a
split between the
Christian churches of S****anid Persia,
which affiliated with Nestorius, and
those that later...
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Nestorian headstone Nestorian cross found in
China Nestorian cross found in
China Two
Nestorian crosses found in
China The
cross from the
Nestorian Stele...
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Stele (Chinese: 景教碑; pinyin: Jǐngjiào bēi),
sometimes translated as the "
Nestorian Stele," is a Tang
Chinese stele erected in 781 that do****ents 150 years...
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their attitude regarding the
Council of
Ephesus (431),
which condemned Nestorianism, and the
Council of
Chalcedon (451),
which condemned Monophysitism. Those...
- the
Nestorian schism, many
Nestorian Christians were
forced to
relocate to the
communities in Persia, and the
church was
misnamed the "
Nestorian Church"...
- East in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Church of the East, also
called Nestorian Church, an
Eastern Christian denomination formerly spread across Asia...
- The
practice of
Nestorian Christianity was
somewhat different from that
practiced in the West, and
Europeans tended to
regard Nestorianism as
heretical for...
