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Meaning of difisismo




Felipe Lorenzo del Río

difisismo
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From the Greek dys, two and physis, nature. Doctrine defended by Nestorius, patriarch of Constantinople in the fifth century. Nestorianism defended that in Christ there were two natures and two persons, the divine and the human. At the Council of Ephesus the position of Cyril of Alexandria was imposed: two natures but one person. Nestorianism was considered a heresy.

  



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