Arius
Americannoun
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The bishops were most concerned with addressing the Arians, followers of the priest Arius, who held that Jesus was created out of nothing but had a beginning.
From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023
By the 1500s, church frescoes and icons were depicting Nicholas slapping Arius.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 21, 2017
The doctrine of the Trinity was not decided exclusively by decades of intense debate; the whimsy of Constantine and political maneuvering between by Arius and Athanasius had a significant influence on the outcome.
From Salon ● Dec. 7, 2013
The majority of the time at Nicaea was spent debating whether Jesus was a man who was the son of God, as Arius proclaimed, or God himself, as the church hierarchy maintained.
From Newsweek
Newton followed the teaching of the fourth-century Alexandrian Arius.
From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin
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