Archives for January 2011

Today's installment concludes Arianism and the First Nicene Council,the name of our combined selection by Johann L. Von Mosheim and Arthur P.

And now come two, who in the common pictures of the council always appear together, of whom the one probably left the deepest impression on his

From Neocæsarea, a border fortress on the Euphrates, came its confessor bishop, Paul, who, like Paphnutius and Potammon, had suffered in the

But close beside the pope Alexander is a small insignificant young man, of hardly twenty-five years of age, of lively manners and speech and of

In the fifth century the Arians, oppressed and persecuted by the imperial edicts, took refuge among those barbarous nations who gradually overturned

On the death of Constantius, in the year 362, the prosperous days of the Arians were at an end.Continuing Arianism and the First Nicene