The Arians of the Fourth CenturyEarly in his career, Newman immersed himself deeply in the study of the church fathers. This volume is a fine academic study, as well as a source of insight into the spirituality of Newman. Important for students of Arianism and Athanasius, as well as Cardinal Newman himself. |
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... truth which it had for a time obscured. Arianism had in fact a close connexion with the existing Aristotelic school. This might have been conjectured, even had there been no proof of the fact, adapted as that philosopher's logical ...
... truth which it had for a time obscured. Arianism had in fact a close connexion with the existing Aristotelic school. This might have been conjectured, even had there been no proof of the fact, adapted as that philosopher's logical ...
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... truths or axioms in the argument. As logic and rhetoric made them expert in proof and refutation, so there was much in ... truth and falsehood, which their experience of this world furnished, could not at once be applied to measure and ...
... truths or axioms in the argument. As logic and rhetoric made them expert in proof and refutation, so there was much in ... truth and falsehood, which their experience of this world furnished, could not at once be applied to measure and ...
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... truth, instead of being exposed to the gaze of the profane and uninstructed, are kept hidden in the bosom of the ... truths which are the objects of it, and again from tenderness both for the heathen and the neophyte, who were unequal to ...
... truth, instead of being exposed to the gaze of the profane and uninstructed, are kept hidden in the bosom of the ... truths which are the objects of it, and again from tenderness both for the heathen and the neophyte, who were unequal to ...
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... truth in right hands, is no unerring guide into it. The Romanists,79 on the other hand, have thought by the same line of policy to exalt the Apostolical purity of their own Church, by the contrast of unfaithfulness in its early rival ...
... truth in right hands, is no unerring guide into it. The Romanists,79 on the other hand, have thought by the same line of policy to exalt the Apostolical purity of their own Church, by the contrast of unfaithfulness in its early rival ...
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... truth, by precipitate disclosures of its details. The example of the inspired writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews was their authority for making a broad distinction between the doctrines suitable to the state of the weak and ignorant ...
... truth, by precipitate disclosures of its details. The example of the inspired writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews was their authority for making a broad distinction between the doctrines suitable to the state of the weak and ignorant ...
Contents
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The Eclectic Sect | 56 |
Sabellianism | 64 |
CHAPTER II | 73 |
HISTORICAL | 126 |
CHAPTER IV | 145 |
The SemiArians | 156 |
The Athanasians | 164 |
The Anomœans | 178 |
The Council OfAlexandria In The Reign Of Julian | 187 |
The Ecumenical Council Of Constantinople In The Reign Of Theodo | 197 |
CREED OF NICÆA | 209 |
APPENDIX | 215 |
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