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- Christotokos (Gr****: Χριστοτόκος, English: Christ-bearer) is a Gr**** title of Mary, the mother of Jesus, used historically by non-Ephesian (or "Nestorian")...
- Patriarch of Constantinople, who preferred that the Virgin Mary be called Christotokos, "Christ-bearer" over Theotokos, "God-bearer"; in contrast to Cyril of...
- the Mother of God. The Church of the East historically regarded her as Christotokos, a term still used in ****yrian Church of the East liturgy. Other Protestant...
- the title Theotokos ("the one who gives birth to God") but called her Christotokos ("the one who gives birth to Christ"), Mary is Theotokos because her...
- theologian of the Antiochian School. Nestorian Mariology prefers the title Christotokos, which encomp****es the term Theotokos ('God-bearer') for Mary, thus emphasizing...
- the concept of a hypostatic union. He proposed instead the title of Christotokos ("Christ-bearer"). This brought him into conflict with Cyril of Alexandria...
- only the mother of the man (anthropotokos) or the mother of Christ (Christotokos). The Second Council of Constantinople is also considered as one of the...
- (Theotokos) to the Virgin Mary, declaring her instead to be "Mother of Christ" Christotokos.[citation needed] The council confirmed the teachings of Athanasius and...
- loosely joined natures, the divine Logos and the human Jesus, and proposed Christotokos (literally, "Bearer of the Christ") as a more suitable alternative title...
- name that translates as "Christ Bearer" in the meaning "Christ carrier" Christotokos, the Gr**** title of Mary, the mother of Jesus, literally translated as...