Saints of the Assyrian Church of the East - Nestorius, Mar Abba I, Abraham the Great of Kashkar, Mar Simeon Barsabae, Saint Mari, Abdecalas (Paperback)

Chapters: Nestorius, Mar Abba I, Abraham the Great of Kashkar, Mar Simeon Barsabae, Saint Mari, Abdecalas, Mar Aggai, Abda of Dair-Koni, Abda of Hira, Abraham of Nethpra, Abda of Edessa, Abraham of Nephtaer. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 43. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Nestorius (in Greek: c. 386c. 451) was Archbishop of Constantinople from 10 April 428 to 22 June 431. Drawing on his studies at the School of Antioch he devised a doctrine that later bore his name, Nestorianism, which emphasized the disunity of the human and divine natures of Christ. His teachings, which included a rejection of the long-used title of Theotokos ("Mother of God") for the Virgin Mary, brought him into conflict with other prominent churchmen of the time, most notably Cyril of Alexandria, who accused him of heresy. Nestorius sought to defend himself at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, but instead he found himself formally condemned for heresy and removed from his see. Thereafter he retired to a monastery, where he asserted his orthodoxy for the rest of his life. Despite his acquiescence, many of his supporters split with the rest of the church in the Nestorian Schism, and over the next decades a number of them relocated to Persia. Thereafter Nestorianism became the official position of the Church of the East. Nestorius was born in 386 in Germanicia in the Roman province of Syria (now Kahramanmara in Turkey). He received his clerical training as a pupil of Theodore of Mopsuestia in Antioch and gained a reputation for his sermons that led to his enthronement by Theodosius II as Archbishop following the death of Sisinnius I in 428. Shortly after his arrival in Constantinople, Nestorius became involved in the disputes of two theological factions, which differed in their Christology. Nestorius tri...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=61540