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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The doctrines of Arius, denying that Jesus was of the same substance as God and holding instead that he was only the highest of created beings, viewed as heretical by most Christian churches.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The doctrines of the Arians. See
Arian , n.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The doctrines of the Arians.
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- noun Christianity A non-trinitarian
Christology , denominated as heretical since Council of Nicaea, but still influential inMonophysite Christianity.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun heretical doctrine taught by Arius that asserted the radical primacy of the Father over the Son
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Examples
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Personally I can see how people could have fallen into Docetism, but Arianism is simply absurd.
Matthew Yglesias » The War on Christmas: The Early Years 2008
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Personally I can see how people could have fallen into Docetism, but Arianism is simply absurd.
Matthew Yglesias » The War on Christmas: The Early Years 2008
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I also thought it was a little weird to talk about modern subordinationist Christology as 'Arianism' -- I generally think of Arianism as the historical phenomenon, and modern theology as 'subordinationist theology' or something similar.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I also thought it was a little weird to talk about modern subordinationist Christology as 'Arianism' -- I generally think of Arianism as the historical phenomenon, and modern theology as 'subordinationist theology' or something similar.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I also thought it was a little weird to talk about modern subordinationist Christology as 'Arianism' -- I generally think of Arianism as the historical phenomenon, and modern theology as 'subordinationist theology' or something similar.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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I also thought it was a little weird to talk about modern subordinationist Christology as 'Arianism' -- I generally think of Arianism as the historical phenomenon, and modern theology as 'subordinationist theology' or something similar.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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The partisans of Athanasius and of Eusebius carried on a cruel war; and what is called Arianism was for a long time established in all the provinces of the empire.
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This conception of Christ is technically called Arianism, from the Alexandrian presbyter of the fourth century who first brought it into prominence.
Unitarianism in America George Willis Cooke 1885
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This was termed 'heresy' and the position is known as Arianism, a perspective that still exists today.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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This was termed 'heresy' and the position is known as Arianism, a perspective that still exists today.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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