HIST-308 Lecture 23: Ephesus and the Theotokos
15 Sep 2020
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While nicaea and constantinople had settled the issue of the trinity, the matter of the incarnation of the son was still causing perplexity. There was a broad agreement that god the son became incarnate in the human being known as yeshua the messiah ( jesus christ ). Perhaps what was needed was a renewed technical application of greek philosophical terms. In 431, the council of ephesus met to discuss the term theotokos or god-bearer as applied to mary, the mother of jesus. Nestorius, the patriarch of constantinople, and formerly associate with antioch, was not very comfortable with using theotokos . She bore not just a man inside her, but god godself. Christians sympathetic to nestorius rejected the council and broke with the later patriarchs of. These ephesus-rejecting christians lived on in antioch and along the silk road across asia, connecting even to today"s assyrian church of the east. In the mediterranean world, alexandrian christianity seemed ascendant, thanks to leaders like.
