The Trinitarian historian Socrates of Constantinople reports that Arius sparked the controversy that bears his name when Alexander of Alexandria, who had succeeded Achillas as the Bishop of Alexandria, gave a sermon stating the similarity of the Son to the Father.

An ascetical moral leader of a Christian community in the area of Alexandria, Arius attracted a large following through a message integrating Neoplatonism, which accented the absolute oneness of the Divinity as the highest perfection, with a literal, rationalist approach to the New Testament texts.

Overview of the Christian sect known as the 'Arian heresy,' after Arius of Alexandria. Discusses its origins, the manner in which it was dealt with within Christendom, the Council of Nicaea in 327, and its long-term effects on Christedom folllowing the early 4th century.

2024年6月7日 · Arius was a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, during the early 4th century. He became a central figure in one of the most significant theological controversies in early Christianity, known as Arianism.

Arius (256 - 336 C.E., poss. in North Africa) was an early Christian theologian, who taught that the Son of God was not eternal, and was subordinate to God the Father (a view known generally as Arianism).

2024年9月10日 · Arius was a Catholic priest from Cyrenaica, a part of modern-day Libya in mid-200s CE. While little is known of his personal history, his greatest impact was in one of the largest controversies of the early church. In 313 CE, he became the presbyter of the church in Alexandria, Egypt.

Arius was a controversial fourth-century Christian thinker in Alexandria, Egypt, who was condemned by the first ecumenical council at Nicaea in 325. Because most of his writings were destroyed as heretical and "Arianism" as a movement developed only after his death, historians continue to debate both the content and the purpose of his teaching.

2010年12月16日 · Arius (AD 250 or 256 - 336) was a fourth-century Alexandrian presbyter who was formally condemned as a heretic by the Orthodox Church. His heresy, referred to as Arianism, consisted of his teaching that the Son of God was not co-eternal and consubstantial with His Father, but was rather a created being, subordinate to the Father.

2024年7月29日 · Arius was a prolific religious figure of early Christianity from Libya. A presbyter and ascetic, he was a priest in Baucalis in Alexandria, Egypt. Arius imparted teachings on a created, finite nature of Christ as opposed to equal divinity with God the Father.

2018年5月14日 · The Libyan theologian Arius (died ca. 336) was presbyter of the Christian Church in Alexandria and the first of the great heresiarchs. Nothing is known of the early life of Arius except that he may have been born in Libya and may have studied under Lucian, the revered teacher and martyr of Antioch.