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Nestorianism
The heresy that Christ's divine and human natures are only morally united — condemned at Ephesus (431 AD).
Nestorianism holds that the divine and human in Christ are united only in a voluntary moral union — not a genuine personal union. The divine Logos dwells in the man Jesus as in a temple; Mary bore the man, not God. Condemned at Ephesus (431 AD). The Assyrian Church of the East, which traces its origins to Nestorian theology, continues as a distinct communion; modern dialogue has found substantial agreement on the essential Christological content.