Theologians of the Antiochene school stress the…
428 CE
Theologians of the Antiochene school stress the humanity of Jesus Christ; the Alexandrian, his deity.
Theodore of Mopsuestia argues that Christ's human nature was complete but was conjoined with the Word by an external union.
Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople from 428, opposes the Alexandrian use of the title “Theotokos, meaning "God bearer," or "Mother of God," for Mary.
Mary, in Nestorius' view, was the mother of Christ only in his humanity.
Nestorius teaches that the divine Jesus is separate from the human Jesus; in refusing to recognize Mary as the Mother of God, he holds that Jesus' divine portion emanated not from Mary but from God the Father.
He teaches that Mary be considered only the "mother of Christ" and not the "mother of God.