The shared center — held across the tradition
Two natures, two qnome, one prosopon.
The divine and the human in Christ are each complete and each concrete — that is what qnoma means — and they are united in one person of sonship. The formula is not the two-natures language of Chalcedon and not the one-nature language of Alexandria; it is an older Antiochene vocabulary that both sides eventually stopped speaking.
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Nestorius is not our founder.
The church did not derive its theology from Nestorius, who was a Greek bishop of Constantinople it never had jurisdiction over; it received the Antiochene tradition directly, through the school of Nisibis. It has never accepted the condemnation of 431 and never taught that there are two Christs. Nestorian, as a name for this church, is a label its neighbours applied.
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