
63- Introducing the Arian Controversy with Ross Twele
The History of the Early Church
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The Aryan Ascension
A movement in the decade of the 350s, 30 to 35 years after the Council of Nicaea happens. A whole generation later that is mostly run by a set of bishops from Illyria and Dalmatia. These bishops begin floating sort of white paper, creeds,. position papers, tentative proposals at local sentence of bishops all across the empire from Gaul, straight on into Syria. It takes six or seven years. They start out not meeting a whole lot of resistance. And then Constantius, Constantine's son, who reunites the empire under his own soul rule at the beginning of the350s, they win his ear. He collaborates with them to try to solve this thing
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