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4th-century Christian sect
In
4th-century Christianity
, the
Anomoeans
[1]
, and known also as
Heterousians
,
Aetians
, or
Eunomians
, were a
sect
that held to a form of
Arianism
, that
Jesus Christ
was not of the same nature (
consubstantial
) as
God the Father
nor was of like nature (
homoiousian
), as maintained by the semi-Arians.
[2]
Overview
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The word
anomoean
comes from
Greek
?(ν)-
(
an-
) 'not' and
?μοιο?
(
omoios
) 'similar', thus 'different; dissimilar'. In the 4th century, during the reign of
Constantius II
, this was the name by which the followers of
Aetius
and
Eunomius
were described. The term
heterousian
derives from
Greek
?τεροο?σιο?
,
heteroousios
'differing in substance' from
?τερο?
,
heteros
'another' and
ο?σ?α
,
ousia
'substance, being'.
The semi-Arians condemned the Anomoeans in the
Council of Seleucia
, and the Anomoeans condemned the semi-Arians in their turn in the Councils of
Constantinople
and
Antioch
; erasing the word
?μοιο?
(
omoios
) from the formula of
Rimini
and that of Constantinople and protesting that the Word had not only a different substance but also a will different from that of the Father. From that, they were to be called
?ν?μοιοι
(
anomoioi
).
In the 5th century, the Anomoean presbyter
Philostorgius
wrote an Anomoean church history.
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Notable Anomoeans
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Eunomius of Cyzicus
, from the
Nuremberg Chronicle
- Aetius
, who founded the Anomoean tradition, later bishop (361–?).
[4]
[5]
- Theodulus
, bishop of
Chaeretapa
(?–c. 363) and
Palestine
(c. 363–c. 379).
[6]
[7]
- Eunomius
, bishop of
Cyzicus
(360–361) and exiled bishop (361–c. 393).
[5]
[8]
- Paemenius
, bishop of
Constantinople
, (c. 363, at the same time as
Eudoxius of Antioch
).
[9]
- Candidus (Bishop of Lydia)
, (c. 363–?).
[9]
- Arrianus
, bishop of
Ionia
, (c. 363–?).
[9]
- Florentius
, bishop of
Constantinople
, (c. 363–?, at the same time as
Eudoxius of Antioch
).
[9]
- Thallus
, bishop of
Lesbos
, (c. 363–?, at the same time as
Eudoxius of Antioch
).
[9]
- Euphronius
, bishop of
Galatia
, the
Black Sea
and
Cappadocia
, (c. 363–?).
[9]
- Julian
, bishop of
Cilicia
, (c. 363–?).
[9]
- Serras
,
Stephen
, and Heliodorus, bishops of Egypt, (c. 363–?).
[9]
- Philostorgius
, historian.
Notable opponents of Anomoeanism
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See also
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Notes
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- ^
also spelled "
Anomeans
"
- ^
Encyclopædia Britannica: "Anomoean"
- ^
Philostorgius,
Church History
.
- ^
Philostorgius, in Photius,
Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius
, book 7, chapter 6.
- ^
a
b
Socrates Scholasticus,
Church History
, book 2, chapter 35.
- ^
Philostorgius, in Photius,
Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius
, book 8, chapter 2 and book 9, chapter 18.
- ^
Socrates Scholasticus,
Church History
, book 2, chapter 40.
- ^
Philostorgius, in Photius,
Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius
, book 5, chapter 3 and book 6, chapters 1–3.
- ^
a
b
c
d
e
f
g
h
Philostorgius, in Photius,
Epitome of the Ecclesiastical History of Philostorgius
, book 8, chapter 2.
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