Archetypal Heresy - Arianism Through the Centuries

Zusatztext This book is a rarity: a work of ripe and profound scholarship that is nevertheless both concise and readable...Throughout there are comments of great insight and good sense which make the book much more than just a monograph for specialists in the history of doctrine. It is rather an important case study giving much food for thought to anyone interested in the health and the commending of Christian doctrine in our own day. Informationen zum Autor Maurice Wiles is Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus, University of Oxford, and past Editor of the Journal of Theological Studies. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Traces the history of how Arianism has been viewed in later Christian thought, particularly where scholars or religious groups have adopted broadly Arian views. This work also deals with how and why their beliefs took this form, and why this approach disappeared again around the end of the century.

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• Authors: Maurice Wiles, Maurice F. Wiles
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2001
• EAN: 9780199245918
• ISBN: 978-0-19-924591-8
• No. of pages: 214
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; History of Ideas, HISTORY / Social History, RELIGION / Christian Theology / General, RELIGION / Christianity / General, RELIGION / Blasphemy, Heresy & Apostasy, Theology, Christianity, Christian theology, Blasphemy, Heresy, Apostasy