Arianism

Gregory’s life he witnessed the Catholic Church and tradition under attack by Arianism. Arianism rejected the divinity of Jesus Christ. Many of St. Gregory’s work defend Christ’s divinity and introduce the Holy Trinity; rather he describes the relationship within the Holy Trinity as procession. "The Holy Spirit is truly Spirit, coming forth…

between Arius and Alexander. Presbyter Arius came into a direct disagreement with Bishop Alexander. It appears that Arius reproached Alexander for what he felt were misguided or heretical teachings being taught by the bishop. The disputes over Arianism were enormously significant both for the churches and for the Roman Empire itself. Emperor Constantine wanted to unite the church for the purpose of the Empire, according to several Biblical scholars. He wanted the two groups to come to an…

The early church's locus of authority was "somewhat" settled before the "Council of Nicea in the year 325. The disagreement which started in Alexandria as the bishop of Alexandria, Alexander disputed that the Word of God was divine and was part of the Father. Arius, according to Gonzalez (2010), "was the one of the most prestigious and popular presbyters of the city," argued that the Word did not coexist with the Father and therefore was not divine (p.184). The Arian controversy also held the…

Athanasius objected to Arian's reasoning. His belief that Jesus was both human and divine and the coming together as one is of utmost importance. Doing this that our souls may not be lost. The Arian and Athanasius held fast to their belief. However, Arianism was not…

While there may be debate as to what the most important event was in the time periods all the way up to the 1600’s, I would argue that it was in introduction of the Christian religion to the western civilizations. Every aspect of civilization was impacted by this socially, economically and politically. Christianity was first introduced by Constantine in the Roman Empire in the late third century. Constantine issued the famous Edict of Milan, which made it official that the Romans would tolerate…

After the death of Christ, the world was left with a difficult question: who is he? Jesus did say that he was the Son of God, but even those that did believe this to be true still had to decipher what it actually meant. It was not initially clear if Jesus meant to say that he was some sort of literal son or if this was meant entirely as metaphor. Many theologians at the time set to answer this question, though it was difficult to form a consensus. After much argumentation, an Alexandrian bishop…

he was not.’ They believe in the Trinity, but not that the Trinity is one. The Council of Constantinople “came to be seen as the second of the ecumenical councils.” There were three heresies that were condemned by the Council of Constantinople. Arianism: ‘one Godhead, power and substance of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, whose dignity is equal and majesty co-eternal, who are in three perfect hypostases or three perfect persons’ Macedonianism: ‘they believed in the deity of the Son…

to Christians. Since 313 CE, there was still issues on the disagreement between the East and West churches mainly, Arianism. The belief that Jesus is the son of God. The issue was that people believed Jesus was the God to Father. There has been some negotiations in the Council of Nicaea but still struggled even after Constantine’s death during the fall of Rome (Matthews). But Arianism was a settled belief in Rome after Constantine’s…

distinction of his two natures (divine and human) and their unity, with each other (Bingham, 2002). Also the Chalcedonian definition, a confession of faith which the Emperor wanted to unite the empire (Lane, 2006), was provoked by the four controversies of Arianism, Nestorianism, Apollinarianism, and Eutycheanism (Kerr, 1990). The conclusion of the Council of Chalcedon resulted in the church rejecting all interpretation of John 1:14 (Bingham, 2002): “And the Word (Christ) became flesh (human,…

founding a uniform doctrine and church. Two things should be noted: a) That a large portion of this ecumenical council was dedicated not just to spell out one uniform doctrine the Nicene Creed but to fight and suppress the considerable influence of Arianism (Christ as a created human, not of divine nature), one of the many so-called Eastern controversies between 250 and 336, and b) That the Bishop of Rome, Pope Sylvester I, avoided attending, sending his legates instead.…