Nestorianism

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the theological doctrine (named after Nestorius) that Christ is both the son of God and the man Jesus (which is opposed to Roman Catholic doctrine that Christ is fully God)

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Bahrain was a centre of Nestorian Christianity, with records of dioceses and even a monastery in Muharraq.

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The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum.

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Augustine, Nemesius of Emesa, the Eastern Church and Nestorian Christianity on the body, and the influence of Jewish and Islamic thought on the development of the Western medical curriculum.

Medical theory about the body and the soul in the Middle Ages; the first Western medical curriculum at Monte Cassino

Scholars of Sinology, Central Asian studies, theology, Church history, linguistics, and archeology present 31 contributions exploring jingjiao, Luminous Religion, which is what Nestorian Christianity was called in Tang China.

Jingjiao; the church of the East in China and Central Asia

Roughly three-quarters of the book is devoted to informative and fascinating essays by specialists on medieval Chinese Christianity or Chinese religion, with pieces on Nestorian Christianity and Manichaeism best illustrating how a receiving culture shapes a delivered message.

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