| In the meantime, the main heresy condemned at the council, Arianism, became ascendant and almost triumphed over orthodoxy. |
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| The council boldly claimed this as the faith of the Church and named Arianism as a heresy and Arians as heretics. |
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| Arianism was then considered heretical and had to be fought against at all costs. |
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| Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion. |
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| A Germanic dialect became the language of the churches, and Arianism became their creed. |
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| Opposing all forms of Arianism, which denied Christ's divinity, Athanasius taught that Christ the Son, and likewise the Holy Spirit, were of the same being as God the Father. |
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| Having concerned himself with Arianism and Monophysitism, the matter of the Donatist controversy was brought to his attention by his friend Robert Williams. |
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| Returning to Italy, he worked with St. Hilary, bishop of Poitiers, France, in opposing Arianism. |
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| Second, I will show how Newman's foray into Monophysitism, still operating from the hermeneutic established in his work on Arianism, helped to pave the way for his conversion. |
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| In 385 or 386 the emperor and his mother Justina, along with a considerable number of clergy and laity, especially military, professed Arianism. |
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| At the end of his reign quarrels arose with his Roman subjects and the Byzantine emperor Justin I over the Arianism issue. |
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| The Visigothic leadership maintained its Arianism up until at least the reign of King Liuvigild. |
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| The major issue of this and other councils during the 4th century was the christological debate between Arianism and Trinitarianism. |
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| In the 4th century some Eastern Germanic tribes, notably the Goths, an East Germanic tribe, adopted Arianism. |
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| The Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325 deemed Arianism to be a heresy. |
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| Controversy over Arianism arose in the late 3rd century and persisted throughout most of the 4th century. |
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| Of the roughly three hundred bishops in attendance at the Council of Nicea, two bishops did not sign the Nicene Creed that condemned Arianism. |
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| Arianism had several different variants, including Eunomianism and Homoian Arianism. |
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| In exterminating Arianism, many texts in Gothic were probably expunged and overwritten as palimpsests or collected and burned. |
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| Modern groups which currently appear to embrace some of the principles of Arianism include Unitarians and Jehovah's Witnesses. |
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| Julius then became the chief support of orthodoxy and the Nicene Creed against Arianism, a heresy that held Christ to have been human, not divine. |
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| Philostorgius was the son of a staunch Arian and from the age of 20 studied in Constantinople and became a follower of Eunomius of Cyzicus, a leading exponent of extreme Arianism. |
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| But even while the Church was being built, unity of faith was far from being reached, because of the progress of Arianism, with the conversion of the Goths and other Germanic tribes, or the Donatist heretics in Africa. |
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| When Frumentius was appointed, the patriarchate of Alexandria, under the leadership of Athanasius, was the stronghold of the Nicene faith against Arianism. |
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| A brilliant orator and writer, Basil also poured out a steady stream of sermons and theological works, most of them aimed at strengthening his people against Arianism. |
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| Theodosius' wife St Flacilla was instrumental in his campaign to end Arianism. |
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| According to legend, Ambrose immediately and forcefully stopped Arianism in Milan. |
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| The third Council of Sirmium in 357 was the high point of Arianism. |
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| In western Europe, Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the barbarian Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths, Lombards and Vandals. |
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| In the west, organized Arianism survived in North Africa, in Hispania, and parts of Italy until it was finally suppressed in the 6th and 7th centuries. |
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| Attacks on heresy also appear throughout his hagiographies, and Arianism is taken to be the common face of heresy across Europe, exposed to great ridicule. |
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