The Arians of the Fourth CenturyThe Arians of the Fourth Century was a revolutionary contribution to church history, challenging many of the assumptions of earlier Anglican scholars. John Henry Newman's account of the great struggle over Christian doctrine in the fourth century shows the first signs of his later views on development. It was also in many ways a "tract for the times" -- a warning to the Anglican Church of the 1830s of the dangers of state interference in religious debate and of the need for theologically educated leadership. This book is taken from Newman's 1871 revision of the text. It contains some additional material and a fuller apparatus of references. This present edition also includes an introduction and notes which attempt to put the work into its context in the nineteenth century Church, but also to explain how scholarship has altered our view of the subject matter. The Arians of the Fourth Century remains a startlingly original essay on the methods of intellectual history within the Christian church, and a powerful statement by Newman of a vision of the church that is not yet fully in tune with Roman Catholic teaching, yet is also at odds with much of the traditional theology of the Church of England. |
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... adopted a custom which at the time had only exis- tence among the Jews . The Quarto - decimans of the Proconsulate had come to an end by A.D. 276 ; and , up to that date , the Antiochene provinces kept their Easter feast in conformity ...
... adoption . An attempt was made by the Arians to smooth over their inconsistency , by adducing passages of Scripture ... adopted son is not necessarily younger , but might be older , than the person adopting him . ] maintained that the ...
... adopted by the Council of the Dedication . Acacius , on the other hand , not satisfied with the advantage he had just gained in the preliminary meeting at Sirmium , where the mention of the usia or substance was dropped ( although but ...