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| | Arianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Arianism was a Christological view held by followers of Arius in the early Christian Church, claiming that Jesus Christ and God the Father were not always contemporary, seeing the Son as a divine being, created by the Father (and consequently inferior to Him) at some point in time, before which he did not exist. | | | There are also points of similarity, among some sharp differences, between Arianism and the doctrine of the Godhead in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon). | | | At one point in the conflict, Arianism held sway in the family of the Emperor and the Imperial nobility, and, because Ulfilas was the apostle to the Goths, the Ostrogoths and the Visigoths, they arrived in western Europe already as Arian Christians. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism
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| | Semi-Arianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Semi-Arianism is a name given to the Christological position of the conservative majority of the Eastern Christian Church in the 4th century, to distinguish it from strict Arianism. | | | Arianism was the view of Arius and his followers that Jesus was subordinate and inferior to God the Father ; this was in opposition to the orthodox catholic view of the Trinity that the three persons were of one being or substance. | | | Arianism spread among the Church of Alexandria and the Eastern Mediterranean. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semi-Arian
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| | Arianism |
| | Three types of Arianism emerged: radical Arianism, which asserted that the Son was "dissimilar" to the Father; homoeanism, which held that the Son was similar to the Father; and semi-Arianism, which shaded off into orthodoxy and held that the Son was similar yet distinct from the Father. | | | Led by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the council condemned Arianism and stated that the Son was consubstantial (of one and the same substance or being) and coeternal with the Father, a belief formulated as homoousios ("of one substance") against the Arian position of homoiousios ("of like substance"). | | | The orthodox counterattack on Arianism pointed out that the Arian theology reduced Christ to a demigod and in effect reintroduced polytheism into Christianity, since Christ was worshiped among Arians as among the orthodox. |
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http://mb-soft.com/believe/txo/arianism.htm
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| | GraciousCall.org - HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH* |
| | Arianism proceeded from the bosom of the Catholic church, was condemned as heresy at the council of Nicaea, but afterwards under various forms attained even ascendency for a time in the church, until at the second ecumenical council it was cast out forever. | | | Arianism proceeded from human reason, Athanasianism from divine revelation; and each used the other source of knowledge as a subordinate and tributary factor. | | | Arianism associated itself with the secular political power and the court party; it represented the imperio-papal principle, and the time of its prevalence under Constantius was an uninterrupted season of the most arbitrary and violent encroachments of the state upon the rights of the church. |
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http://www.graciouscall.org/books/history/3_ch09.htm
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| | 123Student |
| | Origen himself, whose unadvised speculations were charged with the guilt of Arianism, and who employed terms like "the second God," concerning the Logos, which were never adopted by the Church - this very Origen taught the eternal Sonship of the Word, and was not a Semi-Arian. | | | Arianism A heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ. | | | Cardinal Newman held that their view, which is found clearly in Tertullian, of the Son existing after the Word, is connected as an antecedent with Arianism. |
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http://www.123student.com/religion/3477.shtml
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| | Arianism - Philip Schaff |
| | On the other hand, Arianism was refuted by an array of scriptural passages, which teach directly or indirectly the divinity of Christ, and his essential equality with the Father. | | | Alaric, the ‘first conqueror of Rome, Genseric, the conqueror of North Africa, Theodoric the Great, King of Italy, and hero of the Niebelungenlied, were Arians; and the first Teutonic translation of the Scriptures, of which important fragments remain, came from the Arian or semi-Arian missionary Ulfilas. | | | Aided by Constantius, Arianism, under the modified form represented by the term homoi-ousion (similar in essence, as distinct from the Nicene homo-ousion and the strictly Arian hetero-ousion) gained the power in the empire; and even the papal chair in Rome was for a while desecrated by heresy during the Arian interregnum of Felix II. |
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http://www.earlychurch.org.uk/arianism-schaff.html
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| | EGW and the Bible |
| | Semi Arians attempted a compromise be between the orthodox and Arian position on the nature of Christ. | | | Arianism was condemned at the Council of Nicaea (AD 325). | | | The view of Christ presented in those years by Adventist authors was that there was a time when Christ did not exist, that His divinity is a delegated divinity, and that therefore He is inferior to the Father. |
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http://www.macgregorministries.org/seventh_day_adventists/trinity.html
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| | THE GREAT HERESIES |
| | Arianism was a typical example on the largest scale of that reaction against the supernatural which, when it is fully developed, withdraws from religion all that by which religion lives. | | | When the power of Arianism was manifested in those first years of the official Christian Empire and its universal government throughout the Graeco-Roman world, Arianism became the nucleus or centre of many forces which would be, of themselves, indifferent to its doctrine. | | | Arianism (I will later describe the origin of the name) was willing to grant our Lord every kind of honour and majesty short of the full nature of the Godhead. |
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http://www.lpca.us/great_heresies.htm
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| | Works of Theology Students |
| | Arianism preserved a strict monotheism preserving the unity and immutability of God by relegating the Logos to the domain of the finite and intermediary. | | | Sabellianism, and especially Arianism, were a ëblessing in disguiseí, because it occasioned the Church to purify and clarify the understanding of the mystery of Trinity. | | | It is an undeniable fact that Arianism provoked the Church to formulate a doctrine of the Trinity as we have it today. |
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http://www.sds-ch.ch/africa/WorksofTheologyStudents.htm
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| | eternhrsy.htm |
| | In a Council at Antioch in 341, the majority of 97 Eastern bishops subscribed to a form of semi-Arianism, whereas in a Council at Rome in the same year, under Pope Julius I, the trinitarian St. Athanasius was vindicated by over 50 Italian bishops. | | | Arianism held that Jesus was created by the Father. | | | The western-dominated Council of Sardica (Sofia) in 343 again upheld Athanasius' orthodoxy, whereas the eastern Council of Sirmium in 351 espoused Arianism, which in turn was rejected by the western Councils of Arles (353) and Milan (355). |
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http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3543/eternhrsy.htm
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| | Arians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Person of Christ |
| | From which, three types of Arianism emerged: radical Arianism,which asserted that the Son was "dissimilar" to the Father; homoeanism, which held that the Son was similar to the Father; and semi-Arianism, which shaded off into orthodoxy and held that the Son was similar yet distinct from the Father. | | | Arianism was a fourth century heresy named after Arius (c.250-c.336), a priest in Alexandria. | | | Led by Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, the council condemned Arianism and stated that the Son was consubstantial (of one and the same substance or being) and coeternal with the Father, a belief formulated as homoousios ("of one substance") against the Arian position of homoiousios ("of like substance"). |
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http://www.erikwait.com/index.cgi?location=2&action=display_one&story_id=64
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| | International Catholic University 37.5 |
| | St. Jerome quipped that he "woke up to discover that the whole world was Arian." Arianism held that the Son was homoiousios (of a similar nature), but not homoousios (of the same nature) with the Father since the Word, or the Son, was not the eternal God. | | | Arianism perhaps was the most successful heresy in the early Church. | | | The main slogan for Arianism was, "There was when He was not," indicated that the Son was a creature and not the Creator. |
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http://home.comcast.net/~icuweb/c03705.htm
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| | THAT THEY ALL MAY BE ONE |
| | Both groups, however, were required to anathematize Arianism, accept the Nicene faith, and acknowledge the Nicene Council as being of the highest authority. | | | At the beginning of the turbulent fourth century, the Church was faced with two great heretical threats, Sabellianism and Arianism, which stand at opposite poles from the orthodox faith concerning the relationship of the Father and the Son. | | | Arianism now almost completely disappeared in the West, and strongholds of Arians remained only in the East, supported, not surprisingly, by the Emperor Julian the Apostate. |
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http://www.hocna.org/onthefaith/JBockman.htm
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| | SBC - Constantinople I |
| | Now, whereas the Council of Nicaea condemned Arianism pure and simple, those who said unqualifiedly that Jesus was not God, the Council of Constantinople anathematized all those who held any of the equally offensive springs of the heresy, from semi-Arianism to Macedonianism. | | | Arianism was an early heresy that denied the divinity of Our Lord Jesus Christ. | | | One thing was certain however, that a religion as "substanceless" as Arianism, would have died in its cradle had it not been for the support the sect received from the emperors. |
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http://www.catholicism.org/pages/constantinople.htm
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| | Arianism -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | bishop of Emesa, one of the chief doctrinal writers on Semi-Arianism, a modified Arianism that held that Christ was “like” God the Father but not of one substance. | | | Though it modified the extreme position of Arianism, it still fell short of the church's orthodox teaching that Father, Son, and Holy Spirit... | | | Gallo-Roman doctor of the church who as bishop of Poitiers was a champion of orthodoxy against Arianism (q.v.) and was the first Latin writer to introduce Greek doctrine to Western Christendom. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9009410
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| | A Short Guide to Ancient Heresies Kenneth D. Whitehead |
| | Arianism was formally condemned in 325 by the first ecumenical Council of Nicaea, which formulated and promulgated the original version of the Nicene Creed; but Arianism and Semi-Arianism (see below) nevertheless continued to prevail in its original form in many areas for more than a century. | | | Arianism was combatted by the great St. Athanasius of Alexandria (296-373) among others; but the heresy nevertheless persisted, especially among the barbarians, for several centuries. | | | A fourth- and fifth-century African heresy holding that the validity of the sacraments depends upon the moral character of the minister of the sacraments and that sinners cannot be true members of the Church or even tolerated by the Church if their sins are publicly known. |
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http://www.ignatiusinsight.com/features2005/kwhthd_ancntheresies_july05.asp
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| | GraciousCall.org - Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Vol. XIV |
| | The Macedonians, rising up out of Semi-Arianism, gradually reached the Church's belief as to the uncreated majesty of the Son, even if they retained their objection to the homoousion as a formula. | | | Arianism had spoken both of the Son and the Holy Spirit as creatures. | | | Starting from the Nicene homoousion as to the Logos, but denying the completeness of Christ's humanity, he met Arianism half-way, which likewise put the divine Logos in the place of rite human spirit in Christ. |
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http://www.graciouscall.org/books/fathers/npnf214/npnf2170.html
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| | Newman Reader - Arians of the 4th Century - Chapter 5-2 |
| | From the date of this Council, Arianism was formed into a sect exterior to the Catholic Church; and, {393} taking refuge among the Barbarian Invaders of the Empire, is merged among those external enemies of Christianity, whose history cannot be regarded as strictly ecclesiastical. | | | In the mean while, a Council had been held at Aquileia of the bishops of the north of Italy, with a view of inquiring into the faith of two Bishops of Dacia, accused of Arianism. | | | The inhabitants of an opulent and luxurious metropolis, familiarized to Arianism by its forty years' ascendancy among them, and disgusted at the apparent severity of the orthodox school, prepared to resist the installation of Gregory in the cathedral of St. Sophia. |
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http://www.newmanreader.org/works/arians/chapter5-2.html
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| | Arianism Versus the Council of Nicaea |
| | At this Council Arianism was condemned, a profession of faith resembling the Alexandrian creed was promulgated and three Bishops who refused to agree with the teaching of this Council were provisionally excommunicated until the Council of Nicaea. | | | Arianism with its fundamental Trinitarian controversy must not be looked upon as an isolated theory by its founder Arius. | | | The last victory over Arianism came in 381 with the Council of Constantinople in the East and the Council of Aquileia in the West. |
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http://www.monksofadoration.org/arianism.html
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| | Expert Answer Forum |
| | Later on, the Western Church would be plagued by Arianism, but it would not be of the same kind. | | | Arianism, as an intellectual movement, was extinguished in 381 at the Council of Constantinople. | | | They did not have a subtle understanding of the philosophical ideas behind Arianism: Arianism was associated with one's tribe, as Catholicism was associated with the Romans. |
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http://www.saint-mike.org/Apologetics/QA/Answers/Church_History/h000822McCarthy.html
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| | 357 Friends |
| | Initially in Constantine's time it was Nicene doctrine against Arianism, but in Constantius' time it often was bishop against bishop; it depended less on doctrine sometimes than on whose side you were on. | | | Some have called him the father of western hymn singing, but he must be regarded rather as the initiator of this practice in the West, because his hymns were not so good as those of St. Ambrose who would shortly follow him. | | | Hilary would not have many years left after his period of exile (he was longer in exile than he was a sitting bishop) but he spent them well, not only by writing theology, but teaching bishops by convening provincial councils. |
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http://www.hist.edu/357frnds.html
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| | St. Hilary |
| | Most of what he wrote was in defending the Church against Arianism and semi-Arianism. | | | Hilarys chief focus in attempting to defeat Arianism was to establish the divinity of Christ and His authentic peaceful message contained in the gospels. | | | In the West, Hilary was the most tenacious and formidable adversary of the Arianism according to Luigi Gambero whose book is listed in the sources. |
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http://www.doctorsofthecatholicchurch.com/H.html
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| | Nicene Debate @bittertruth |
| | "Radical Arianism, which asserted that the Son was "dissimilar" to the Father; Homoeanism, which held that the Son was similar to the Father; and Semi-Arianism, which shaded off into orthodoxy and held that the Son was similar yet distinct from the Father." The last one was probably the most correct one. | | | Arianism had much going for it in that it pointed out that Jesus did have a beginning, a creation and was not THE God but the son of God who acted as God the Father in the Father's behalf, as His appointed king, so to speak. | | | 2001.), "much of the dispute about Arianism seems a battle over words, but a fundamental issue involving the integrity of the Gospel was at stake: whether God was really in Christ reconciling the world to himself." That is a load of crap. |
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http://home.maine.rr.com/bittertruth/nicene.htm
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| | ARIANISM.TXT |
| | Arianism did not intimidate Pope St. Sylvester and Semi-Arianism did not intimidate Pope St. Julius into silence. | | | But we must not be too severe on Constantine, a layman, when a rapidly increasing number of bishops set him the bad example of either accepting or silently tolerating Arianism. | | | The council condemned Arianism anathematized Arius with the two dissenting bishops, and closed in a burst of applause. |
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http://www.ewtn.com/library/HOMELIBR/ARIANISM.TXT
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| | Lecture 6: Talking of God: The Holy and Undivided Trinity |
| | Perhaps the most influential heresy in shaping orthodox statements was Arianism based upon the teachings of Arius (c250-c336), a priest from Alexandria. | | | Arianism: The teaching that the Christ was somewhere between God and humanity in nature. | | | Yet the Son is also in Arianism distinct from other creatures and is to be elevated to a level between the Father and other creatures. |
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http://www.knights.freeuk.com/mjp/mil996.htm
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| | May 22: The "Dated" Creed |
| | A council which did not represent the entire church, consisting mostly of a number of Bishops who leaned toward Arianism, issued a creed. | | | Arians appointed their own bishops throughout the empire and so Arianism maintained a strong footing. | | | While on the surface it condemned Arianism, it objected to the Creed of Nicea for saying that Christ was of the same essence as God the Father. |
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http://chi.gospelcom.net/DAILYF/2003/05/daily-05-22-2003.shtml
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| | Heresy |
| | But there were four which best illustrate the gravity of the Church's struggle to maintain the truth of her teachings: Arianism, Semi-Arianism, Apollinarianism, Nestorianism and Monophystitsm, the most popular and "prince" of the heresies. | | | The creed was affirmed by the 150 bishops in attendance, thus attempting to curb once more the widespread practice of Arianism. | | | He was a formidable and unrelenting opponent of Arianism. |
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http://home.att.net/~reinhart/XHSRelEd/Heresy.htm
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| | Semi-Arian Meaning and Definition - ThinkExist quotations |
| | A, Acknowledge, Admitted, Arianism, Be, Branch, But, By, Consubstantial, Did, Father, Him, Is, Like, Member, Nature, Not, Of, Or, Peculiar, Pertaining, Privilege, Same, Son, Substance, That, The, To, Which, With, |
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http://en.thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/semi-arian
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| | Copyright © 2000 by The Voice of Prophecy |
| | Such a view is sometimes called "Arian" or "Arianism." And often Bible scholars and theologians are referred to as "semi-Arian" if they break away but only partially from the belief that Jesus Christ was created or "began" at some specific point, and that He did not exist before that. | | | "Full-blown" Arianism, as Dr. Woodrow Whidden, a professor of religion at Andrews University, our Adventist seminary in Michigan, puts it, would claim that: | | | We posed the question reverently yesterday: was there ever a time when God went to the hospital in a sense and where Jesus "started" at that point? |
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http://www.vop.com/previous_broadcasts/2002/may/02195.htm
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