The fate of nestorıus after the council of ephesus in 431

Abstract

More than a hundred years ago Friedrich Loofs compiled and published the extant parts of Nestorius‟ writings, and soon afterwards Paul Bedjan published a Syriac translation of his work Liber Heraclidis1. Those two publications had commenced, on a broad scale, a new stage in the research on Nestorius and his teaching. The successive monographs, published frequently in the atmosphere of hot debate, as well as the regular publishing of the Syriac sources, had caused that the figure of Nestorius, and particularly his theological views, are better known today than a century ago2. Due to the theological significance of the Nestorian dispute, the questions regarding his biography had been relegated into the background and, with a few exceptions, did not constitute the primary aspect of the research devoted to him3. This article is an attempt to represent the life of the bishop of Constantinople (Istanbul) after his deposition in 431.