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Nestorian Church

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  • Henana of Adiabene at the end of the sixth century drew to Nisibis a large number of disciples; his teaching caused serious dissentions in the Nestorian Church, for he abandoned the doctrines of Theodore of Mopsuestia to attach himself to St. Chrysostom.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • The whole structure of the Nestorian Church, unequal to the trial, crumbled under the persecutions and wars of the Tatars.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • One thing more was needed for the Nestorian Church; it wanted theological schools of its own, in order that its clergy might be able to hold their own in theological argument, without being tempted to study in the orthodox centres of the East or in the numerous and brilliant schools which the monophysites were now establishing.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • This Nestorian Church reached its highest pitch of prosperity in the eleventh century, but the Mongol invasion in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries involved its adherents in ruin and the great mass of their posterity became absorbed in the general Mohammedan population.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

  • Presbyterian missioner: it repudiates the name Protestant, and has for its avowed object the strengthening of the Nestorian Church to resist Catholic influences on the one hand and Protestant on the other.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

  • The Nestorian Church which they founded, though cut off from the Catholic Church by political exigencies, never intended to do more than practise an autonomy like that of the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

  • The Nestorian heresy left a permanent Nestorian Church, the Monophysite and Monothelite quarrels made several more, the reunion with Rome of fractions of every Rite further increased the number, and quite lately the Bulgarian schism has created yet another; indeed it seems as if two more, in Cyprus and Syria, are being formed at the present moment (1908).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

  • Nisibis of the Nestorian Church, who lived shortly after Saadia

    A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy Isaac Husik 1907

  • -- In A.D. 631 the Nestorian Church introduced Christianity into China, under the title of "The Luminous Doctrine;" and in 636

    Religions of Ancient China Herbert Allen Giles 1890

  • Christians, though belonging to the Nestorian Church, had overcome the royal brothers Samiardi, kings of the Medes and Persians, and had captured Ecbatana, their capital and residence.

    Legends That Every Child Should Know; a Selection of the Great Legends of All Times for Young People Hamilton Wright Mabie 1880

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