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“Mother of Christ”...?

Straight from the source, excellent post. Thanks.

In light of churches which proclaim Christ to truly be "the only begotten Son of God" the usages of each term, both "mother of God" and "mother of Christ" have been found to be acceptable, without hint of the charge "heretic" being justifiably applied to those whom prefer to use the term "mother of Christ".

Straight from a more contemporary source;

"The humanity to which the Blessed Virgin Mary gave birth always was that of the Son of God himself. That is the reason why the Assyrian Church of the East is praying the Virgin Mary as "the Mother of Christ our God and Saviour". In the light of this same faith the Catholic tradition addresses the Virgin Mary as "the Mother of God" and also as "the Mother of Christ". We both recognize the legitimacy and rightness of these expressions of the same faith and we both respect the preference of each Church in her liturgical life and piety."

I'm deliberately not providing a link at this time, to the above quoted statement.

With that being said, I would hope for in the future, that the hints of and charges of Nestorism be limited to that which he was actually condemned for, by the prosecutor/judge combo in the person of Cyril, leaving behind as innocent enough the usages of some form of "mother of Christ" when speaking of Mary, for such usages are not the equivalent of being the makings of the heresy itself, or even inexorably leading to the same or similar.

It's either that, or IOANNES PAULUS PP. II, himself, flung his own arms wide open, and said to the heresy, "come to papa", embracing it as his own.

It can be reasonably induced that this last "full embracing" did in no wise occur.

Cronos: I pinged you to this comment due to your previous presence on this thread, and my impression of you that you are a reasonable man. I do thank you for your own efforts towards ecumenicism, here and elsewhere.