The Wikipedia article on Nestorius is a community edited encyclopedic account of the fifth century Patriarch of Constantinople condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 for a Christology later tradition summarized, likely somewhat unfairly, as dividing Christ into two separate persons. Its strength is that a well developed Wikipedia article on a figure this central to early Christian doctrinal controversy draws together patristic scholarship on the Nestorian controversy, its political dimensions and the modern scholarly reassessment questioning whether Nestorius actually held the position condemned in his name, into one accessible summary. Its limit is that Wikipedia is a continuously and anonymously editable reference rather than a peer reviewed source, so it is useful for the outline of the controversy and its outcome, but a claim resting on close theological analysis of what Nestorius himself actually taught, a genuinely contested scholarly question, needs the patristic scholarship the article itself draws on.
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Wikipedia's community maintained article on Nestorius is a continuously revised tertiary encyclopedia entry with no named author or peer review process, hence the lower tier, though useful here for the outline of the Nestorian controversy and its outcome. NotesWikipedia's article on Nestorius. A perpetually community-edited reference page rather than a peer-reviewed publication; use for standard, uncontroversial facts about Nestorius (biographical detail, dates, common definitions), not as the source for a contested or specialist scholarly claim.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorius
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This source names Constantinople directly: "of the fifth century Patriarch of Constantinople condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 for a Christology later tradition summarized, likely somewhat unfairly, as dividing Christ into two..."
This source names Ephesus directly: "condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 for a Christology later tradition summarized, likely somewhat unfairly, as dividing Christ into two separate persons."
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