8. Proceedings against Athanasius :- The Alexandrians prepare themselves for the trial Encouraged by the Sardican Council George of Cappadocia, the Eusebian Bishop. Irruption of Syrianus into the Church They join the Eusebians or Acacians against the Semi- Appeal of the two parties to Constantius Preparation for an Ecumenical Council а PAGE 2. The question of the Succession at Antioch :- 3. The question of the hypostasis :- Note 1. The Syrian School of Theology 2. The early doctrine of the divine gennesis 3. The Confessions at Sirmium . 4. The early use of usia and hypostasis CHAPTER I. SCHOOLS AND PARTIES IN AND ABOUT THE ANTE-NICENE CHURCH, CONSIDERED IN THEIR RELATION TO THE ARIAN HERESY. SECTION I. THE CHURCH OF ANTIOCH. It is proposed in the following pages to trace the outlines of the history of Arianism, between the first and the second General Councils. These are its natural chronological limits, whether by Arianism we mean a heresy or a party in the Church. In the Council held at Nicæa, in Bithynia, A.D. 325, it was formally detected and condemned. In the subsequent years it ran its course, through various modifications of opinion, and with various success, till the date of the second General Council, held A.D. 381, at Constantinople, when the resources of heretical subtilty being at length exhausted, the Arian party was ejected from the Catholic body, and formed into a distinct sect, exterior to it. It is during this period, while it still maintained its hold upon the creeds and the government of the Church, that B |