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Arianism (Koine Greek: Ἀρειανισμός, Areianismós) is a Christological doctrine considered heretical by all mainstream branches of Christianity. It is first attributed to Arius ( c. AD 256–336 ), [1] [3] [4] a Christian presbyter who preached and studied in Alexandria , Egypt . [1]
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The early Arians are best seen as biblical exegetes concerned with preserving their view of the creaturely nature of the Christ of the Gospels—a Christ who struggled, suffered, died on a cross—as the prototypical obedient servant of God and as the instrument of God in creating and redeeming the universe.
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The first covers Arianism's origins and emergence. This hinges on a basic narrative in which Arius, a priest of Alexandria in Egypt in the early fourth century, proposed a radical theology in which the Son was “not part of God and could never have been ‘within’ the life of God” but was “dependent and subordinate” (Williams, Arius, 177).
To many Christians, the teachings of Arianism are heretical and are not the correct Christian teachings as they deny that Jesus was of the same substance of the God of this monotheistic religion, making it one of the more prominent reasons Arianism has stopped being practiced today.
Arianism was a major theological movement in the Christian Roman Empire during the fourth and fifth centuries C.E. The conflict between Arianism and standard Trinitarian beliefs was the first major doctrinal battle in the Christian church after the legalization of Christianity by Emperor Constantine I.
