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Da Qin Pagoda
The Daqin Pagoda, part of an early Nestorian church in what was then Chang'an, now Xi'an, China, built during the Tang dynasty (618-907 AD)

Nestorianism is a movement within Christianity. The idea behind the doctrine was that there were two different persons of Jesus. One of them was the man Jesus, the other was the aspect of son of God, or Logos. Perhaps the most prominent supporter of the idea was Nestorius, archbishop of Constantinople. Nestorius lived from about 380 to about 450 AD. The Council of Ephesus condemned this view in 431. This led to a split of the church, into the Assyrian Church of the East and the Byzantine Church.

For this reason, the Assyrian Church of the East is sometimes called Nestorian. The church holds the view that Chist has two essences (qnome) that are united in one person (parsopa).

The only two churches that teach Nestorianism today are the Assyrian Church of the East, and the Church of the East & Abroad.

Controversial beliefs
Arianism1 • Nestorianism1 • Pelagianism1,3 • Catharism2,3
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Old beliefs
Eastern Orthodox
Catholic beliefs
Original Protestant beliefs
Other common Protestant beliefs
Restorationism
Notes
1. Early Christian leaders met and agreed that this belief was false.
2. Wiped out by a religious war
3. This group or movement has no followers today

Images for kids

  • Yuan stone Nestorian inscription (rep)

    Chinese stone inscription of a Nestorian Cross from a monastery of Fangshan District in Beijing (then called Dadu, or Khanbaliq), dated to the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368 AD) of medieval China.

  • Entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, with a Female Figure in T'ang Costume, Chotscho, Sinkiang

    Entry of Jesus Christ into Jerusalem, with a female figure dressing in the T'ang dynasty costume, 683-770 A.D.

  • Palm Sunday (probably), Khocho, Nestorian Temple, 683-770 AD, wall painting - Ethnological Museum, Berlin - DSC01741

    Nestorian priests in a procession on Palm Sunday, in a seventh- or eighth-century wall painting from a Nestorian church in Qocho, China

  • An epitaph of a Nestorian Christian

    Epitaph of a Nestorian, unearthed at Chifeng, Inner Mongolia


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