Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Monday, July 11, 2016
ARIUS AND ARIANISM
I have often wondered about Arius, a 4th century scholar, whose writings were twice burned, once by Constatine, after the Council of Nicea in 325, and again by orthodox Christianity, which abhorred his teaching that if Jesus is "begotten ," he could not have always been, as consubstantial with God, but a later addition like us. These theological speculations may find comity today in the general theory of relativity 's proof that the fabric of the universe is not the same everywhere; which at least is susceptible to demonstration and persuasion. Arius and Arianism has been foresworn and desecrated, as has he, for centuries as heresy, by the Catholic and Protestant hierarchy.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arius