Nestorius

NESTORIUS : UNDERSTANDING INCARNATION
PROF. M. M. NINAN
The solution is to assume that both his two natures formed into one nature in which he willingly
and knowingly surrendered his many possibilities, abilities and glory and while as a man lived like
any ordinary man. He was always able to take them up whenever he wanted. But that would have
invalidated his sacrifice and model of living as a sinless human being. While he was always aware
of his Godship he willingly gave those and became a man. His miracles were not done in way as
God. He himself proclaimed that his disciples will do greater things than those he did.
CHRISTOLOGICAL CREED
OF
THE CHURCH OF THE EAST
The Church of the East: A Concise History By Wilhelm Baum, Dietmar W. Winkler
The officially recognized synod of 486… produced the first preserved
Christological creed of the Church of the East after the imperial synods of
Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451):
“Further, let our faith in the dispensation of Christ be in the confession of the two natures, of
the divinity and of the humanity, while none of us shall dare to introduce mixture, mingling or
confusion into the differences of these two natures; rather, while the divinity remains
preserved in what belongs to it, and humanity in what belongs to it, it is to a single Lordship
and to a single (object of) worship that we gather together the exemplars of these two
natures, because of the perfect and inseparable conjunction that has occurred for the
divinity with respect to the humanity.
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