How Did Arius Learn from Asterius? On the Relationship between the Thalia and the Syntagmation
In the De decretis Athanasius claims that Arius copied' and learned' from Asterius. This study explores how this could have happened by arguing that in the writing of his Thalia Arius was influenced by Asterius' Syntagmation. Besides complicating the literary and theological relatio...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[2018]
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The journal of ecclesiastical history
Year: 2018, Volume: 69, Issue: 3, Pages: 477-492 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Asterius of Cappadocia 270-341
/ Reception
/ Arius, Haeresiarcha 260-336, Thalia
/ Athanasius, Alexandrinus, Heiliger 295-373, De decretis Nicaenae synodi
/ Council 1. (325 : Nizäa)
/ Trinity
/ Arian controversy
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity KCC Councils NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | In the De decretis Athanasius claims that Arius copied' and learned' from Asterius. This study explores how this could have happened by arguing that in the writing of his Thalia Arius was influenced by Asterius' Syntagmation. Besides complicating the literary and theological relationship between Arius and Asterius, this reconstruction provides the clearest evidence for the new perspective on Arius which has emerged in recent revisionist scholarship, and which argues that he is best understood as embedded within a theological tradition and as a catalysing participant in its efforts to articulate a theological vision. By dating the Syntagmation to about 322 and the Thalia to about 323 this study also gives qualified support to Rowan Williams's dating of some pre-Nicene events and discredits a recent attempt to position Asterius as having had a formative influence on Arius. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-7637 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of ecclesiastical history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0022046917000677 |