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'''''Theotokos''''' (Greek '''Θεοτόκος''') is the most exalted Greek title given to [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary, the mother of Jesus]]. Its literal English translations include "God-bearer", "Birth-Giver of God" and "the one who gives birth to God." Less literal translations include "Mother of God". This title is a consequence of the [[Christianity|Christian]] catholic and orthodox [[doctrine]] of the [[Divine|divinity]] of [[Jesus Christ]], the [[Incarnation|Incarnate]] Son of [[God]], "the [[Logos|Word]] made flesh" (John 1:14), the Second Person of the Blessed [[Trinity]], as defined [[dogma]]tically against the teaching of [[Nestorianism|Nestorius]] declared [[Heresy|heretical]] by the [[Council of Ephesus]].

'''''Theotokos''''' (Greek '''Θεοτόκος''') is the most exalted Greek title given to [[Mary (mother of Jesus)|Mary, the mother of Jesus]]. Its literal English translations include "God-bearer", "Birth-Giver of God" and "the one who gives birth to God." Less literal translations include "Mother of God". This title is a consequence of the [[Christianity|Christian]] catholic and orthodox [[doctrine]] of the [[Divine|divinity]] of [[Jesus Christ]], the [[Incarnation|Incarnate]] Son of [[God]], "the [[Logos|Word]] made flesh" (John 1:14), the Second Person of the Blessed [[Trinity]], as defined [[dogma]]tically against the teaching of [[Nestorianism|Nestorius]] declared [[Heresy|heretical]] by the [[Council of Ephesus]].

According to this doctrine of the Council, Jesus is equally God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one in divine being and substance of divinity and Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit as one God of three divine Persons. He is therefore God before his incarnation, God at the moment of his incarnation, and God in the womb of Mary, his true mother. There was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that she was not his mother, and there was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that he was not God and man. This title ''Theotokos'' is a doctrinal defense of the divinity of Jesus the incarnate Son of God and Son of Mary, God and man, the two natures of the one Person of Christ.

According to this doctrine of the Council, Jesus is equally God with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one in divine being and substance of divinity and Godhead with the Father and the Holy Spirit as one God of three divine Persons. He is therefore God before his incarnation, God at the moment of his incarnation, and God in the womb of Mary, his true mother. There was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that she was not his mother, and there was never a moment from the instant of his incarnation that he was not God and man. This title ''Theotokos'' is a doctrinal defense of the divinity of Jesus the incarnate Son of God and Son of Mary, God and man, the two natures of the one Person of Christ.