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NESTORIUS : UNDERSTANDING INCARNATION PROF. M. M. NINAN agree that Mary was the Mother of God became seen as tantamount of refusing to accept the divinity of Christ (Historical Theology, 51-52) Nestorious, however, was not comfortable with this title given to Mary. For Nestorious, Mary was not the Mother of God — rather, she was the mother Jesus Christ the man. For this reason, he preferred to call her the “Christotokos”: the bearer of Christ. If Jesus is one Person with two natures — divine and human — it is logically correct to call Mary the Mother of God. While she didn’t beget Jesus’ divine nature, she did give birth to Christ who is also divine. Nestorius tried to find a middle ground between the two groups. Nestorius suggested the title Christotokos (Χριστοτόκος, "Christ-bearer"), but he did not find acceptance on either side. This is understandable since Christ only means “one who is annointed” and could be interpreted as a human Jesus who was anointed by God and could deny the deity of Jesus. It might seem to support adoptionism whereby Jesus was adopted as son of God either at the baptism or after the resurrection. "Nestorianism" refers to the doctrine that there are two distinct hypostases in the Incarnate Christ, the one Divine and the other human. Nestorius's opponents charged him with detaching Christ's divinity and humanity into two persons existing in one body, thereby denying the reality of the Incarnation. It is not clear whether Nestorius actually taught that. Eusebius, a layman who later became the bishop of the neighboring Dorylaeum, was the first to accuse Nestorius of heresy but his most forceful opponent was Patriarch Cyril of Alexandria. This naturally caused great excitement at Constantinople, especially among the clergy, who were clearly not well disposed to the stranger from Antioch. 7
NESTORIUS : UNDERSTANDING INCARNATION PROF. M. M. NINAN St. Cyril of Alexandria was born in AD 370, was ordained a priest, and lived a monastic life until he succeeded his uncle as patriarch archbishop of Alexandria, Egypt in 412. In 431 he presided over the Ecumenical Council of Ephesus which opposed the teaching of Nestorius and defined the inseparable unity of the divine and human natures of Christ, and thus the appropriateness of invoking the Blessed Virgin Mary under the title of “Theotokos” or Mother of God. He died in 444. And is revered by Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, and Coptic churches as one of the greatest of the Fathers of the Church. Roman Catholics also recognize him as a Doctor of the Church. 8
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