Council of Ephesus

Having looked at the divinity of Christ in the scriptures and the pre-nicene Fathers, we'll be going on next time to begin looking at the Council of Ephesus and the Nestorian heresy.

Archive 2009-05-01 2009

Which is a nice way of saying it was condemned as heresy at the Council of Ephesus in 431.

Rapture Ready! Daniel Radosh 2008

“Mother of God,” “Theotokos,” is the title officially attributed to Mary in the fifth century, exactly by the Council of Ephesus in 431, but affirmed in the devotion of the Christian people already since the third century, in the context of the discussions that arose in that period over the person of Christ.

Archive 2008-01-01 papabear 2008

In 431, the Council of Ephesus issued the first dogmatic statement on Mary: she was to be honored as Theotokos, the God-bearer or Mother of God.

Hail, Mary 2008

The confirmation of this title at the Council of Ephesus in the fifth century led to ever greater devotion to Mary and the dedication of numerous churches in her honour, including the Basilica of Saint Mary Major here in Rome.

Archive 2008-01-01 papabear 2008

This doctrine was so fully accepted that at the Council of Ephesus in 431, belief in the millennium was condemned as superstition.

The Myth/Reality of Antichrist - and the danger to America! 2008

For example, in response to the erroneous ideas of men such as Arius to Nestorius to Marcion, the Church Fathers developed the great Christological and Trinitarian dogmas -- including, in 432, the Council of Ephesus that declared Mary the Theotokos, the "Mother of God."

"He's the truth..." Why Evangelical Theology Fails Heidi Hess Saxton 2007

For example, in response to the erroneous ideas of men such as Arius to Nestorius to Marcion, the Church Fathers developed the great Christological and Trinitarian dogmas -- including, in 432, the Council of Ephesus that declared Mary the Theotokos, the "Mother of God."

Archive 2007-09-01 Heidi Hess Saxton 2007

But if Newman is correct, it doesn't even matter that the same Christians of the time would likely have been scandalized by the dogma of the Council of Ephesus in 431 N.B. that Mary is the Mother of God—as the Nestorian Christians were at the very time the dogma was defined, and which propelled them into a schism that persists until this day.

Archive 2006-11-01 Mike L 2006

As the Council of Ephesus A.D. 431 defined:Since the holy Virgin brought forth corporally God made one with flesh according to nature, for this reason we also call her Mother of God, not as if the nature of the Word had the beginning of its existence from the flesh.

Why Mary? 2006