Difference between revisions of "Aetians"

<p> a branch of Arians, named from [[Aetius]] of Antioch, one of the most zealous defenders of Arianism, who, after being servant to a grammarian, of whom he learned grammar and logic, was ordained deacon, and at last bishop, by Eudoxus, patriarch of [[Constantinople]] (about A.D. 356). He wrote about 300 theological treatises, one of which has been preserved by Epiphanius, who reports that he held that the Son was of a nature inferior to the Father (κτιστός, καὶ ἐξ οὐκ ὄντων, and ἀνόμοιος τῷ πατρὶ καὶ ἑτερούσιος ); that the Holy Spirit was but a creature, made by the Father and the Son before all other creatures. [[Socrates]] ''(Ch. Hist.'' 2, 35) says that, though his "doctrines were similar to those of the Arians, yet, from the abstruseness of his arguments, which they could not comprehend, they pronounced him a heretic." He was said to be well versed in the Aristotelian logic. His doctrine and his disciples were condemned by the [[Council]] of Seleucia, A.D. 359. He died about A. D. 367. See Theodoret, 2:24; Neander, Ch. Hist. 2, 399, 409, Cave, Hist. Lit. anno 359; Lardner, Works, 3, 584; Walch, Hist. d. Ketzereien, 2, 660. (See [[Anomoeans]]). </p>