Abstract
Abstract In the early part of the 5th century Nestorius of Constantinople questioned the church's traditional use of the title “Bearer of God” (Theotokos) for Mary, the mother of Jesus. He may have also described the incarnation as the joining together of God the Word and a human person so that two separate persons resided in Christ. The Bishop of Alexandria, Cyril, rebuked and sought to correct Nestorius' way of speaking and thinking about the incarnation. Cyril spoke of the Word of God, who prior to the incarnation possessed only a divine nature, but who by means of the incarnation took to himself possession of his own human nature. Whereas this description distinguished the two natures, it emphasized their true union. A bitter political and theological controversy ensued in which Nestorius accused Cyril of teaching Apollinarianism and Cyril charged Nestorius with teaching an extreme form of Antiochene theology.
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