Many centuries ago, a man named Arius stirred major controversy in the church with his claim: Jesus Christ was created and finite, not of equal divinity with the Father. This became known as the ...

You know Yogi Berra’s one-liner: “This is déjà vu all over again.” Well, the modern Catholic Church is experiencing Arianism all over again. Marcellino D’Ambrosio’s new book When the Church Was Young ...

Arianism, simply defined, is the belief that Jesus Christ was not equal with God the Father, but was a created being. In the fourth century the Cappadocian fathers, St Basil and St Gregory of ...

Arianism, though thoroughly condemned, has had many emanations throughout history. The theology may not be the same, but the foundational ideology is that Christ did not always exist. In today’s ...

This is a listener-supported podcast! Thanks for your help! Arianism was the fourth century evolution of adoptionism, in which Arius made a concession to the mainstream by accepting a quasi-divinity ...

Shortly before traveling to Nicaea, the Pope issued a warning: he said that the heresies confronted by the council whose 1,700th anniversary he was about to celebrate just hours later are reappearing.

A fourth-century heresy that denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. Its author was Arius (256-336), a priest of Alexandria, who in 318 began to teach the doctrine that now bears his name. According to ...

After the Council of Nicaea, the real fight for the divinity of Christ began. At the Council of Nicaea, Arius and his ideas lost. But for decades after the council, it appeared that an Arian ...

One of the most famous stories about the Council of Nicaea is the legend that St. Nicholas slapped the heretic Arius in the face for his impudence and heretical teaching. Whether this event actually ...

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 ...