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Arius

American  
[uh-rahy-uhs, air-ee-] / əˈraɪ əs, ˈɛər i- /

noun

  1. died a.d. 336, Christian priest at Alexandria: founder of Arianism.

  2. Ancient name of Hari Rud.


Arius British  
/ ˈɛərɪəs /

noun

  1. ?250–336 ad , Greek Christian theologian, originator of the doctrine of Arianism

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By the 1500s, church frescoes and icons were depicting Nicholas slapping Arius.

From Washington Post

By that point, the primary disputes centered on whether Jesus was God—the followers of a priest named Arius said no, that God created Jesus.

From Newsweek

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

His opinions as to the duties of Greeks to barbarians, 229 Arius, death of, ii.

From Project Gutenberg

We have not to deal with men like Arius or Priscillian, or Nestorius or Eutyches, scholars and prelates who filled the Church with the disputatious wrangles of their learning.

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