NESTORIUS

born 4th century AD, , Germanicia, Syria Euphratensis, Asia Minor [now Maras, Turkey] died c. 451, , Panopolis, Egypt early bishop of Constantinople whose views on the nature and person of Christ led to the calling of the Council of Ephesus in 431 and to Nestorianism, one of the major Christian heresies. A few small Nestorian churches still exist. (See also Nestorian.) Additional reading B.J. Kidd, A History of the Church to A.D. 461, vol. 3 (1922, reprinted 1976), draws together the many known details into a comprehensive narrative. Friedrich Loofs, Stanley A. Cook, and Georg Kampffmeyer, Nestoriana (1905), contains the majority of the surviving fragments of Nestorius' works, with notes in German. G.R. Driver and Leonard Hodgson (trans. and eds.), The Bazaar of Heracleides (1925, reprinted 1978); and F. Nau (trans.), Le Livre d'Hraclide de Damas (1910, reprinted 1969), both give translations of Nestorius' major extant work and provide full introductions and notes. Friedrich Loofs, Nestorius and His Place in the History of Christian Doctrine (1914, reprinted 1975); and Aubrey Russell Vine, An Approach to Christology (1948), discuss Nestorius' Christology. The Rev. John N.D. Kelly The Editors of the Encyclopdia Britannica