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Edwards, the ‘Arian’ Controversy, Churchmanship, and Politics

2022
Abstract This chapter first considers Edwards’ participation in the so-called Arian controversy concerning the subordinationist Christology of William Whiston and Samuel Clarke, and notes how he enhanced his already-reputable status as a Church of England divine through his defence of creedal Christological orthodoxy.
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Who Accused Whom of What? The Outbreak of the "Arian" Controversy

Journal of Early Christian Studies, 2023
Abstract: This article aims to reconstruct the outbreak and initial parameters of the so-called Arian crisis. To do that, it divides ancient sources into two different groups: 1) the sources that reproduce or depend on the polemical narrative of Athanasius and 2) the documents contemporary to the events, which are quoted in ancient works.
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ARCHAEOLOGY AND THE ‘ARIAN CONTROVERSY’ IN THE FOURTH CENTURY

Late Antique Archaeology, 2010
The so-called ‘Arian Controversy’ that divided the Christian Church in the 4th c. has been the subject of considerable scholarly debate in recent decades. The literary sources from which the majority of our knowledge of the controversy derives are highly polemical and distorted, written almost exclusively from the perspective of those whose positions ...
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The Early Arian Controversy

2018
The controversy over the theology of Arius was really over how to imagine a connection between a wholly transcendent God and the present world. Arius saw in Jesus a mediator, divinely generated to connect the world with God. The bishops at Nicaea asserted that this Son of God is of one substance with God his Father.
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THREE NOTES ON ASPECTS OF THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY c. 354–367 CE

The Journal of Theological Studies, 1993
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in the ecclesiastical history of the mid-fourth century, particularly in the reign of Constantius II. There follows some discussion of three events of the period c.354-67 CE which have as their common theme the relations between the various emperors and the leading Arian (for want of a more precise ...
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THE ARIAN CONTROVERSY AND THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA

This work analyzes the Arian Controversy (4th century) and the Council of Nicaea (325) in their theological and political dimensions. It begins with the theses of Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria, who affirmed the creation of the Son by the Father and His consequent subordination, and presents the responses of opponents—especially Athanasius ...
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Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345

2006
Abstract In the recent explosion of scholarship on the Arian controversy, the years immediately after Nicaea have been comparatively neglected. This is partly because the prevailing view in the English-speaking world is that either there was no real theological controversy at all during the years 325-345, merely a general distaste for ...
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The Arian controversy vis-a-vis the Council of Nicea and inculturation of the faith

2017
In the Arian controversy of the fourth century is found a very decisive and controversial question ever arisen in the history of the church. The present work tries to reconstruct firstly this controversy by investigating the historical context in which Arius lived and tries to trace the intellectual streams of influences which shaped his Christology ...
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Parvis, Sarah: Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy (325-345)

1970
Zeitschrift für Kirchengeschichte, Bd. 120 Nr.
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Preaching and the Arian Controversy

Journal of Eastern Christian Studies, 2008
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