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Arianism, early Christianity, and Islam - Influences & Connections

From what I have read here, Arianism was very strong in first century Christianity dumped it only after strong opposition played out, and even then not completely.  Arianist traditions continued strong in western Christian and in north Africa centres, both areas having traditionally expressed independence and a desire not to be controlled by central Christian centers



Origin of Islam from Arianism



Christianity, Modern Arianism, and Islam | Gates of Vienna



Arianism vs. Catholicism – Christianity's "civil war"



Arianism Today



First Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Arianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia



Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius (ca. AD 250–336), a Christian presbyter in Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of God the Father to the Son of God, Jesus Christ. Arius asserted that the Son of God was a subordinate entity to God the Father. Deemed a heretic by the Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325, Arius was later exonerated in 335 at the regional First Synod of Tyre,[1] and then, after his death, pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.[2] The Roman Emperors Constantius II (337–361) and Valens (364–378) were Arians or Semi-Arians.



The Arian concept of Christ
is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by—and is
therefore distinct from—God the Father. This belief is grounded in the Gospel of John (14:28)[3]
passage: "You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to
you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father,
for the Father is greater than I."

See also Colossians 1:15—"He is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of all creation;"; also, Revelation 3:14—"These are the things
that the Amen says, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the
creation by God"; and Proverbs 8:22–29.



Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius, supported by the Council of Rimini, which are in opposition to the post-Nicaean Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, all Reformation-founded Protestant
churches (Lutheran, Reformed/Presbyterian, and Anglican), and a large
majority of groups founded after the Reformation and calling themselves
Protestant (such as Methodist, Baptist, most Pentecostals). Modern
groups which may be seen as espousing some of the principles of Arianism
include Unitarians, Oneness Pentecostals, Members Church of God International, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jehovah's Witnesses, Iglesia ni Cristo and Branhamism, though the origins of their beliefs are not necessarily attributed to the teachings of Arius.[4] "Arianism" is also often used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ—the Son of God, the Logos—as either a created being (as in Arianism proper and Anomoeanism), or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created (as in Semi-Arianism).

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