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Although primarily remembered for the sack of Rome in 455 and their persecution of Nicene Christians in favor of Arian Christianity, the Vandals were also patrons of learning. Grand building projects continued, schools flourished, and North Africa fostered many of the most innovative writers and natural scientists of the late Latin -speaking ...
Nov 19, 2018 · Arianism. navigation search. Arianism was a 4th century heresy named after Arius (c.250-336), a presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, who taught that the Son of God was not co-eternal and consubstantial with His Father, but rather a created being with a definite origin in time. In Arius's words, "there was [a time] when he (the Son) was not."
Theodoric was of the Arian (nontrinitarian) faith, and in his final years he was no longer the disengaged Arian patron of religious toleration that he had seemed earlier in his reign. "Indeed, his death cut short what could well have developed into a major persecution of Catholic churches in retaliation for measures taken by Justinian in ...
Athanasius I of Alexandria [note 1] ( c. 296–298 – 2 May 373), also called Athanasius the Great, Athanasius the Confessor, or, among Coptic Christians, Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian and the 20th pope of Alexandria (as Athanasius I ). His intermittent episcopacy spanned 45 years ( c. 8 June 328 – 2 May 373), of which ...
Eusebius of Caesarea ( / juːˈsiːbiəs /; Greek: Εὐσέβιος τῆς Καισαρείας Eusebios tēs Kaisareias; c. 260/265 – 30 May 339), also known as Eusebius Pamphilus [7] (from the Greek: Εὐσέβιος τοῦ Παμφίλου ), was a Greek [8] Syro-Palestinian [9] historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist.
Hypostasis (plural: hypostases ), from the Greek ὑπόστασις ( hypóstasis ), is the underlying state or underlying substance and is the fundamental reality that supports all else. But it is not the same as the concept of a substance. In Neoplatonism the hypostasis of the soul, the intellect ( nous) and "the one" was addressed by ...
France. The Visigothic Kingdom, Visigothic Spain or Kingdom of the Goths ( Latin: Regnum Gothorum) occupied what is now southwestern France and the Iberian Peninsula from the 5th to the 8th centuries. One of the Germanic successor states to the Western Roman Empire, it was originally created by the settlement of the Visigoths under King Wallia ...
