Nestorius

Disputed. The deposition is certain. How dualist his own Christology was is the argument.

Nestorius, from Antioch, attacked the devotional title Theotokos as careless. He preferred to say Mary bore the man Jesus in whom the Word dwelt. Cyril treated that as dividing Christ into two sons. Ephesus deposed him. A later book, the Bazaar of Heracleides, argues that he was misrepresented. The Church of the East honored Theodore and, in a qualified way, Nestorius's concern, without simply being 'Nestorian' in Cyril's sense.

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