Nestorianism

Nestorianism is a based on what is called "Dyophysitism", which is the Christian belief that Jesus Christ was God and human, having two natures in what is called the hypostatic union. Nestorianism can be described as the belief that Jesus was having loosely two natures, and did not believe in the hypostatic union, but rather more in a general prosopon or union. The belief traces its roots to Nestorius, the Archbishop or Patriatch of Constantinople. He rejected the idea of the idea of "Theotokos", that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was the mother of God. Instead, he encouraged the term "Cristokos" or "Christ-bearer". His beliefs were rejected by the Council of Ephesus in 431. However, his beliefs were accepted by the Church of the East in the Persian empire. Nestorianism was rejected by Christians in the Western and Eastern Roman empires, which encouraged a migration of Nestorian followers to the Persian empire. Nestorianism was not affiliated with Roman empire, which allowed Christians to be more accepted in the Persian empire. All in all, Nestorianism benefited Christians in the Persian Empire who were with the Church of East.