rival bishop.87 The ensuing row once more plunged the entire Eastern Church into a bewildering welter of intrigue and complication which drew in the Eastern emperor, in sheer self-defence, to stop his empire being ripped apart. After a council at Ephesus in 431 and negotiations over the next two years, Theodosius II forced a compromise on the opposing sides. It vindicated the title Theotokos, ruined Nestorius’s career for good and left ‘Nestorian’ theology permanently condemned, but it also left many supporters of Cyril’s theology outraged that their own theology had not been fully vindicated
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