Medievalists.net » Council of Nicea http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 The Arian Controversy: Some Categories Reconsidered http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-arian-controversy-some-categories-reconsidered/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-arian-controversy-some-categories-reconsidered/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 23:17:45 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=35919 The choice of categories to designate the two opposing sides in the fourth-century theological controversy is crucially important, for the categories color the whole interpretation of the controversy. Some of the categories used in the past are less than satisfactory. The pair "Arian" and "Nicene" is anachronistic, and perhaps too dogmatic.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/23/the-arian-controversy-some-categories-reconsidered/feed/ 0 The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/10/the-eastern-schism-and-the-division-of-europe/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/04/10/the-eastern-schism-and-the-division-of-europe/#comments Sun, 10 Apr 2011 17:01:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=19427 The Eastern Schism and the Division of Europe Ledit, Joseph S.J., Theological Studies, Vol.12:4 (1951) Abstract Now that Europe has been cut in two, and its two fragments have become minor parts of the large systems that fill the world, Eurasia on one side, and the Atlantic community on the other, it becomes the object of […]

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