Acacians
Sign in to saveThe Acacians (), or perhaps better described as the Homoians (from gr. hómoios) or Homoeans (), were a non-Nicene branch of Christianity that dominated the church during much of the fourth-century Arian Controversy. They declared that the Son was similar to God the Father, without reference to substance (essence). Homoians played a major role in the Christianization of the Goths in the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire.
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22 sectionsContents
- Supporters
- Theology
- Anti-Nicene
- Anti-Arius
- The incomparability of God
- A Suffering God
- Christ as subordinate
- Christ as divine
- The Holy Spirit
- Homoian creeds
- Biblical language
- Dominant view
- Eusebius of Caesarea
- Rise to dominance
- Continuation after 381
- Intermediate positions
- Development of Homoian theology in the 350s
- Sirmian manifesto of 357
- Councils of 359 and 360
- Influences and decline
- Notes
- References
The Acacians (), or perhaps better described as the Homoians (from gr. hómoios) or Homoeans (), were a non-Nicene branch of Christianity that dominated the church during much of the fourth-century Arian Controversy. They declared that the Son was similar to God the Father, without reference to substance (essence). Homoians played a major role in the Christianization of the Goths in the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire.
"Though Homoian Arianism derived from the thought both of Eusebius of Caesarea and of Arius, we cannot with confidence detect it before the year 357, when it appears in the Second Sirmian Creed."