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Eusebius of Caesarea [note 1] (c. AD 260/265 – 30 May AD 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilius, [note 2] [7] was a Greek [8] Syro-Palestinian [9] historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. In about AD 314 he became the bishop of Caesarea Maritima in the Roman province of Syria Palaestina.
Eusebius of Caesarea, in his famous book The Ecclesiastical History explains Arius' views as: [80] That God has not always been a Father, and that there was a time when the Son was not ; that the Son is a creature like the others ; that he is mutable by his nature; that by his free will he chose to remain virtuous, but that he might change like ...
Eusebius of Nicomedia (/ j uː ˈ s iː b i ə s /; Ancient Greek: Εὐσέβιος; died 341) was an Arian priest who baptized Constantine the Great on his deathbed in 337. [1] [2] A fifth-century legend evolved that Pope Sylvester I was the one to baptize Constantine, but this is dismissed by scholars as a forgery "to amend the historical memory of the Arian baptism that the emperor ...
An 1842 edition of Eusebius's Ecclesiastical History. The Ecclesiastical History (Ancient Greek: Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία, Ekklēsiastikḕ Historía; Latin: Historia Ecclesiastica), also known as The History of the Church and Church History, is a 4th-century chronological account of the development of Early Christianity from the 1st century to the 4th century, composed by ...
Homoian theology “was a development of the theology of Eusebius of Caesarea.” [3]: 557 “Homoian Arianism derived from the thought both of Eusebius of Caesarea and of Arius.” [3]: 558 "Akakius of Caesarea is usually regarded as the leader of the Homoian Arians par excellence.
Among Arius' supporters were Eusebius of Nicomedia and Eusebius of Caesarea, and they advocated for his view and his restoration to the church in Alexandria. Alexander also circulated letters defending his own position. [18] [11] Parallel to the theological controversy between Alexander and Arius was the Melitian schism in the Alexandrian church.
Eusebius goes on to explain how initially the goal was not to expel Arius and his supporters, but to find a Creed on which all of them could agree and unite. Eusebius of Caesarea suggested a compromise wording of a creed, in which the Son would be affirmed as "homoiousios", or "of similar substance/nature" with the Father. But Alexander and ...
Arius himself attended the council as well as the young deacon Athanasius, who attended as an assistant to Alexander of Alexandria [12] and who would become the champion of the Nicene Creed and spend most of his life battling Arianism and other form of Unitarianism. Also there were Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius of Nicomedia.