THEO 24813 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Eutyches, Nicene Creed, Nestorius
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Session 3: christian and muslim perceptions on jesus. May 26, 2017: the council of ephesus, council of christian bishops in 431 held by the roman emperor theodosius ii, key heresy, confirmed the original nicene creed and condemned the teachings of. Nestorius (patriarch of constantinople: he believed that the virgin mary should be called christotokos, birth giver of christ and not theotokos (birth giver of. God: theotokos = divine, christokos = human, emphasizes the distinction between the human and divine natures of. Jesus: he was criticized mainly for his denial of theotokos, nestorianism = jesu christ who is not identical with the son, but personally united with the son who lives within him is one hypostasis and one human. Christokos: no union between the human and the divine was possible. If mary gave birth to christ as a human only, then our salvation cannot be fulfilled for a simple man separated from god cannot be the savior.
