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Arianism, in Christianity, the Christological position that Jesus, as the Son of God, was created by God. It was proposed early in the 4th century by Arius of Alexandria and was popular throughout much of the Eastern and Western Roman empires.
Arianism (Koinē Greek: Ἀρειανισμός, Areianismós) [1] is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all modern mainstream branches of Christianity. [2] It is first attributed to Arius (c. AD 256–336), [1] [3] [4] a Christian presbyter who preached and studied in Alexandria, Egypt. [1]
What Separates Arianism From Orthodox Christian Doctrine? Orthodox Christian doctrine, as defined in the Athanasian Creed, is that the members of the Trinity have always existed and are equal in glory and majesty.
Arianism, Christian heresy that declared that Christ is not truly divine but a created being. According to the Alexandrian presbyter Arius (4th century), God alone is immutable and self-existent, and the Son is not God but a creature with a beginning.
Arianism, a heresy which arose in the fourth century, and denied the Divinity of Jesus Christ. DOCTRINE., First among the doctrinal disputes which troubled Christians after Constantine had recognized the Church in A.D. 313, and the parent of many more during some three centuries, Arianism occupies a large place in ecclesiastical history.
The Arian controversy began even before the first Christian emperor Constantine seized sole control of the entire Roman Empire in 324 C.E.
Arius died in the mid-330s CE, but others picked up the banner of the Samosatene Doctrine (which became known as Arianism, after its best-known and most fervent advocate). Arianism found something of a second home in the western part of the Roman Empire in its waning days.
The Arian controversy (not to be confused with the Indo-Europeans known as Aryans) was a discourse that occurred in the Christian church of the 4th century CE, that threatened to upend the meaning of the church itself.
Arianism is commonly summed up in two or three phrases: “Arius denied the divinity of Christ” (or “the unity of the Trinity”); “Arianism was subordinationist: it made the Son a lesser God than the Father.”
Arianism was a major theological movement in the Christian Roman Empire during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. The conflict between Arianism and standard Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal battle in the Christian church after the legalization of Christianity by Emperor Constantine I .