Book Description:
It is proposed in the following pages to trace the outlines of the history of A nanism, between the first and the second General Councils. These arc its natural chronological limits, whether by A nanism we mean a heresy or a party in the Church. In the Council held at Nica;a, in Rithynia, a.D. 325, it was formally detected and condemned. In the subsequent years it ran its course, through various modifications of opinion, and with various success, till the date of the second General Council, held a.D. 381, at Constantinople, when the resources of heretical subtilty being at length exhausted, the Arian party was ejected from the Catholic body, and formed into a distinct sect, exterior to it. It is during this period, while it still maintained its hold upon the creeds and the govern-
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Table of Contents
1 Character of the liusebiun leaders :--; Acacius 275; George *, 275; Leoniius 4 276; Eudoxius,,, 277; Valens 278; 2 Their proceed!ngs :-; Against KustS'hius, &c 280; They join the Melctiyns of Kgypt 2$l; Against Athanasius ,? 2S2; Hold Councils at Czcsarea and Tyre 282; And depose him 284; 3 Their Creeds :-; Athanasius and other exiles at Rome 2S5; Roman Council 2S5; Euscbian Council of the Dedication , , 286; Adopts the creed of Lucian 286; Us second, third, and fourth creeds , 287; Us fifth creed, the Macrostich 287; Great Council of Sixdica 2K9; FviSebianS leaving it for Philippopoli* 289; Acquits and restores Athanasius 290; Recantation of Valens and Ursaciu'j 291; Section II,-The Soni-Arians; 1 Their doctrine :-; its subdety and indistinctness , , 207; It a symbol, the Homoxishn 297; It considered our Lord to be a true Sun , 298; Its scH-contradictions , ? 299; 2 Their leaders :-; Men of hijfh character 299; Uasil of Ancyra ,,,, 300; Mark of Areihusa ,,,,, 301; Cyril of Jerusalem 303; Fusebiui: rci Samosata 3i>2; On ihe contrary, fVLicedonius, tlie Pneutn;ito-; macliJil
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