Editing Nestorius (section)

== Legacy ==
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Though Nestorius had been condemned by the Imperial church, there was a faction loyal to him and his teachings. Following the [[Nestorian schism]], many Nestorian Christians were forced to relocate to the communities within the [[Sasanian Empire|Persian empire]]; thus, the church took on names such as "Nestorian church" and "Church of Persia".<ref>{{Cite book |last=II |first=Pope John Paul |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PzQvAAAAYAAJ |title=Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Church in India |date=1996 |publisher=Mar Thoma Yogam |language=en}}</ref>

In modern times, the [[Assyrian Church of the East]], the descendant of the historical Church of the East, reveres Nestorius as a [[saint]], but the modern church does not subscribe to the entirety of the Nestorian doctrine as it has traditionally been understood in the West to mean "two persons", believing that the West misunderstood and misrepresented his theology, and rejects that Nestorius taught any heresy. [[List of patriarchs of the Assyrian Church of the East|Patriarch]] [[Dinkha IV]] repudiated the exonym ''Nestorian'' on the occasion of his accession in 1976.{{sfn|Hill|1988|p=107}}

After the [[Council of Ephesus]] within the Byzantine Empire, the doctrine of [[Monophysitism]] developed in reaction to Nestorianism by [[Eutyches]], who asserted that Christ had a ''monos'' (sole) nature, the human nature being fully absorbed into the divine, in contrast to [[Miaphysitism]], which affirms a ''mia'' (one) composite nature from both, fully divine and fully human, "without change, commingling, division, or separation". Despite being condemned at the [[Third Council of Ephesus]] by the [[Oriental Orthodox Churches]], Monophysitism is sometimes attributed to them, either intentionally or out of ignorance.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Hannah |first=John D. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=daamDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 |title=Invitation to Church History: World: The Story of Christianity |date=2019-03-26 |publisher=Kregel Academic |isbn=978-0-8254-2775-6 |language=en}}</ref>