Anomoeans
Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary [1]
the name by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth century, in contradistinction to the Semi-Arians. The word is formed from the Greek ανομοιος , different. For the pure Arians asserted, that the Son was of a nature different from, and in nothing like, that of the Father; whereas the Semi-Arians acknowledged a likeness of nature in the Son, at the same time that they denied, with the pure Arians, the consubstantiality of the Word. The Semi-Arians condemned the Anomoeans in the council of Selcucia; and the Anomoeans, in their turn, condemned the Semi-Arians in the councils of Constantinople and Antioch, erasing the word like out of the formula of Rimini and Constantinople.
A Dictionary of Early Christian Biography [2]
Anomoeans (from ἀνόμοιος , dissimilar ), one of the appellations of the radical Arians who, in opposition to the Athanasian or Nicene doctrine of the consubstantiality (ὁμοουσία ) and the semi-Arian view of the likeness ( ὁμοιουσία ) of the Son to the Father, taught that the Son was dissimilar, and of a different substance (ἑτεροούσιος ). [See Arianism.]
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Charles Buck Theological Dictionary [3]
The name by which the pure Arians were called in the fourth century, in contradistinction to the Semi- arians. The word is formed from the Greek, different.
See ARIANS and SEMI-ARIANS.
Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature [4]
( Ἀνόμοιος , Dissimilar ) , the name by which the stricter Arians, who denied the Likeness of the Word to the Father, were distinguished from the Semi- Arians, who merely denied his Consubstantiality. — Gieseler, Ch. Hist. 1, 198. (See Arians).
