466. The Nestorian heresy regarded Christ as a human person joined to the divine person of God’s Son. Opposing this heresy, St. Cyril of Alexandria and the third ecumenical council, at Ephesus in 431, confessed “that the Word, uniting to himself in his person the flesh animated by a rational soul, became man.” Christ’s humanity has no other subject than the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it and made it his own, from his conception. For this reason the Council of Ephesus proclaimed in 431 that Mary truly became the Mother of God by the human conception of the Son of God in her womb: “Mother of God, not that the nature of the Word or his divinity received the beginning of its existence from the holy Virgin, but that, since the holy body, animated by a rational soul, which the Word of God united to himself according to the hypostasis, was born from her, the Word is said to be born according to the flesh.”
Aprofunde seus conhecimentos
104. What does the hidden life of Jesus in Nazareth teach us?
364. What is the relationship between freedom and responsibility?
23. What is the unity that exists between the Old and the New Testaments?
561. What is the role of the Holy Spirit in prayer?
431. What purpose do the precepts of the Church have?
571. What is contemplative prayer?
Acesse nossos estudos biblicos:
How important is community in the midst of suffering, according to Job 42:10-11?
What is the importance of being faithful to sound doctrine?
How is prayer seen in the Psalms as an expression of dependence on God?
