Was the addition of Filioque to the Nicene Creed necessary to combat Arianism in the West? This is an assertion often made in its defense, but is this really true? Filioque—”and the Son” in Latin—is a ...

Arius was a Catholic priest from Cyrenaica, a part of modern-day Libya in mid-200s CE. While little is known of his personal history, his greatest impact was in one of the largest controversies of ...

When the Roman Empire began collapsing, Christianity prevailed and the Roman Catholic Church kept its territories together.

It wa a heresy that attempted to find a compromise between the Catholic Faith and Arianism. At the Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.), it was declared that the Son of God is "of the same substance ...

I entrusted the care of arms to my Belisarius, and so favorable did the divine hand show itself to him that it gave me the ...

The seven general Ecumenical Councils of the Christian Church were critical in determining many of the orthodox beliefs held ...

Ancient Christianities, Paula Fredriksen’s study of the religion’s first 500 years, features saints, sects and ‘intolerant ...

Müller speaks of a clash of civilizations, the role of the laity in those culture wars and what he thinks a Synodal Church ...

So the difference between being the same and being similar to was the heart of the debate over Arianism. And the Council of Nicea resolved that the proper teaching was that Jesus was of the same ...