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Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries

By Maurice Wiles

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1996
ISBN
9780191520594, 9780198269274, 9780199245918, 0198269277, 0199245916
ASIN
B001KVZLSE
LCC
BT1350 .W55 1996
Open Library ID
OL7403613M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1140720 bytes)
Pages
216\215
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Arians in the third century AD maintained that Jesus was less divine than God. Regarded as the archetypal Christian heresy, Arianism was condemned in the Nicene Creed and apparently squashed by the early church. Less well known is the fact that fifteen centuries later, Arianism was alive and well, championed by Isaac Newton and other scientists of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. This book asks how and why Arianism endured.

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