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The 15 pages that link to Theotokos, each with the reason it gives.

• Council of ChalcedonRelated: The council upheld this title as consistent with its Christological definition.

• IncarnationRelated: The title expresses the Incarnation by naming Mary as mother of the person who is God.

• Council of EphesusRelated: The council’s affirmation of this title expressed its claim that Christ is one person, truly divine.

• Cyril of AlexandriaBroader topic: Cyril defended the title as a consequence of Christ’s personal unity.

• NestorianismRelated: Whether Mary could bear this title became a test of Christ’s personal unity.

• Mary, mother of JesusRelated: The title expresses the claim about Jesus that underlies Mary’s status in many churches.

• Marian devotionRelated: The title grounds Marian honor in the Christian claim that her son is divine.

• Hypostatic unionRelated: The title follows from attributing Christ’s birth to one person, not to a separate human subject.

• Gregory of NazianzusRelated: Gregory used the title to argue that the one born from Mary was truly God.

• NestoriusRelated: Nestorius’s resistance to the title exposed competing accounts of how Mary’s son is divine.

• Madonna and ChildRelated: The title expresses why Mary’s motherhood carries theological significance in these images.

• Perpetual virginity of MaryRelated: The title places Mary’s role in the Incarnation at the center of devotion and doctrine.

• Virgin birth of JesusRelated: The title expresses the claim that the one Mary bore is truly divine as well as human.

• Dormition of the Mother of GodRelated: The feast honors Mary by the title central to Eastern Christian devotion to her.

• Theodoret of CyrrhusRelated: The title became a flashpoint in the controversy over how Christ’s divinity and humanity relate.