Arianism and Other Christological Disputes

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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 July 2025

Robin Whelan

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Richard Flower

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This chapter offers a critical narrative of the development of Arianism as a heresy from the fourth to the sixth century. It explores the changing meanings of the heresiological label, and the political and ecclesiastical contexts in which it was deployed, from the origins of controversy between Arius and Alexander in Alexandria through to the barbarian successor kingdoms of the post-imperial West.

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Arians barbarians heresy Nicene orthodoxy Christology Homoians

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Information: The Cambridge Companion to Christian Heresy , pp. 156 - 174

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108556620.011 [Opens in a new window]

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Print publication year: 2025

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