Word: arian
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Second-Coming Symbolism. When the Arian heretics proposed that Christ, while divine, was not equal to God the Father, the Council of Nicaea in 325 turned to a word derived from Hellenic philosophy, homoousia, to express its conviction that Jesus was of the same "substance" with the Father. At the Council of Constantinople, 56 years later, church fathers responded to heresy by defining the divinity of the Holy Spirit and proclaiming that the three "persons," or hypostases, were coequal manifestations...
...Catholicism ranks as ecumenical. It is the first council that did not face, or leave in its wake, heresy or schism. Councils have always been the church's last-resort response to crisis - from the First Council of Nicaea, summoned by Emperor Constantine in 325 to combat the Arian heresy, to Trent (1545-63), which had to cope with the Reformation, to the abortive Vatican I (1869-70), which faced bewildering currents of anticlericalism and the effects of the ever-widening industrial revolution...
...Lombards, Pope Gregory the Great lent the sacred Iron Crown, which supposedly bore a nail from the Cross. The Pope had good reason, so the legend goes, to show Theodolinda this special favor. A fervent Roman Catholic, she persuaded her husband and most of his subjects to abandon the Arian heresy. For the first time in decades, a religious peace settled over the Lombards, and crime virtually disappeared...
...Emperor Constantine. disturbed because the Arian heresy had started a squabble among his bishops that threatened the internal and external security of the Roman world, summoned the Council of Nicaea, banged episcopal heads together until the bishops agreed on the Nicene Creed, a concise statement of belief that runs in the Latin version to only 162 words, yet managed to postpone religious schism for 700 years...
...young seminarians. Mrs. Arno, who earlier in the day had mistakenly entered a cloistered area of the tree-lined campus, was not allowed to attend the class; Auchincloss went, admitted to his host that he had some difficulty keeping awake during the half of the discussion on the Arian heresy conducted in Latin, although he had struggled with the language for a dozen years at Buckley School, Groton and Yale...