When the reading talked about Arian Christians i had no idea what that meant. Arianis was the difference between medieval and ancient religions. It was a major difference between the two times, period. Arianism focused on the human christ. They looked at the happenings of the man and not the spirit. They put all their attention on this human figure. The teachings of Arius conflicted with trinitarium. Trinitarium views were held by the church and we all know that in that time, the church was full of power and control. Arianism died completely by the end of the 6th century.
These days new religions and new beliefs come and go, but i have always wondered about the scrutiny that new religions in the Late Antiquity had to face. Where do these ideas and beliefs originate from with such pressure from the church beating down on them?
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Why do you think there was such pressure? The Church had very little public authority in Late Antiquity and could be effective only if the emperor decided to throw is weight to one side or the other.
The ideas came as a result of Christian theologians have to confront both external critics and internal philosophers regarding the many ambiguous and even seemingly contradictory elements of their religion. When Christianity was just a minor cult, that sort of detailed examination was less necessary. By Late Antiquity, though, Christianity was the dominant religion. Just like any majority party, factions developed and different people held to different interpretations. How one interpreted the nature of Christ was so important that it led not merely to factions but to separate and competing churches. Other factors, such as the Donatist controversy or iconoclasm, caused other splits.
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