IDENTITY AND AUTONOMY OF THE ARMENIAN CHURCH: ASPECTS OF ANTI-NESTORIAN CHRISTOLOGY
Ogannisyan Ogannes Vaagovich
Yerevan State University, The Republic of Armenia
Abstract. The article analyzes the anti-Nestorian position of the Armenian Apostolic Church on the Christological issue. The paper shows that the Armenian Church’s position is motivated by its dogmatic observation of the Alexandrine theological tradition. The author describes anti-Nestorianism’s social and political influence on Armenian identity. Analyzing original sources of the Armenian Church the researcher concludes that anti-Nestorian Christology served as a basis to preserve the Church’s autonomy and identity.
Key words and phrases: Армянская церковь, христология, несторианство, Кирилл Александрийский, природа Христа, самобытность, The Armenian Church, Christology, Nestorianism, Cyril of Alexandria, nature of Christ, identity
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