Athanatius

Athanatius The Impact of Athanasius on the Church’s Doctrine As the church entered its four-hundredth year, controversy arose about the mysteries of God. The beliefs that are taught today were debated then. Most of the debates centered around the mystery of Christ being both human and divine, as well as topics pertaining to the Trinity. A group of heretics known as Arians headed the debates. The head of this group was a man named Arius. Because of the debates, the Council of Nicea was held to conclude the exact standing of the Church on such issues. Arius, the head of Arianism was born in Libya around 250 AD. After studying theology at Lucian of Antioch, he was ordained a priest in Alexandria in 319. As a priest, he gained many followers accepting his beliefs. Their beliefs rejected the idea of Christ as divine. Their beliefs had roots in Neoplatonism. Arius had four main ideologies, which attempt to logically conclude that Christ was not divine. His first belief centered around the concept that Christ could not be divine, since Christ was created after God. Since God is omnipresent, unbound by athanasius, church, christ, god, creed, council, beliefs, nicean, arians, arius, after, son, same, divine, substance, nicea, father, views, support, stands, say, monks, made, idea, held, grew, debates, controversy, church’s, because, around, alexander, ad, trinity, time, therefore, stated, standing, since, priest, point, pertaining, making, major, ideas, however, history, head, group, great