[Kolokotronis]

"Did Nestorianism depend on literacy?"

I sincerely doubt it! :) From what I've seen, literacy seems to have very little to do with any heresy, at least among "nominal" Christians, which, unfortunately, make up the majority in this country.

[fzx12345]

You are forgetting the Abecedarians, a 16th Century Anabaptist sect, who claiming that as the Holy Spirit alone passed all knowledge to humanity, literacy was sinful.

[redgolum]

Been reading a bit about the Nestorians, and find it kind of funny that Nestor himself probably wasn't one. It was those who claimed to follow him after he went into exile at a monastery that took his writing to the logical extreme. Or rather, they only had a superficial understanding of what he was saying. After Chalcedon, Nesotor felt vindicated in that the formula there worked out was what he was trying to say. Unfortunately for him, neither his supporters or his opponents understood that (which begs the question if he wasn't just saying he agreed to Chalcadon to try to get out of trouble).

In fact, one author that I am reading suggested that was the real issue that the ecclessial authorities were concerned about. That nominal Christians would just wander into a Nestorian heresy without actually thinking that much about it.