Nestorian

American  

[ne-stawr-ee-uhn, -stohr-] / nɛˈstɔr i ən, -ˈstoʊr- /

noun

1. one of a sect of followers of Nestorius who denied the hypostatic union and were represented as maintaining the existence of two distinct persons in Christ.

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Other Word Forms

• Nestorianism
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Etymology

Origin of Nestorian

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Late Latin word Nestoriānus. See Nestorius, -an

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Nestorian

For example, Nestorian Christianity emerged in the fifth century in the debates about Christ’s divinity, claiming that Jesus existed as two individuals—human and divine.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

The Nestorian Christians had come primarily from Syria and Persia.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

A million people lived within Chang’an’s pounded-earth walls, including travelers and traders from Central, Southeast, South and Northeast Asia and followers of Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism.

From New York Times ● May 11, 2020

At the same time, he said, any government has to take religious minorities — whether Nestorian Christians, Protestants or Jews — into account.

From New York Times ● Jun. 11, 2010

The Nestorians were eminent as physicians, and it is interesting to this College to know that one of the best translators of Aristotle into Arabic was Johannitius, a Nestorian physician.

From Science and Medieval Thought The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18, 1900 by Sir Thomas Clifford Allbutt

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