Subscriber login


Forgot your password?

Library card login

Other

Nestorianism


Definition of Nestorianism

noun

[mass noun]
  • the Christian doctrine that there were two separate persons, one human and one divine, in the incarnate Christ. It is named after Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople (428–31), and was maintained by some ancient Churches of the Middle East. A small Nestorian Church still exists in Iraq.

Derivatives

Nestorian

adjective & noun

Nestorianism in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Nestorianism in the US English dictionary