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Theology, Politics, and Radiant Darkness: Michæl Motia on Gregory of Nyssa

Podcast episodes – The Secret History of Western Esotericism Podcast (SHWEP)

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The Aryan Controversy

In the fourth century, a bishop named Alexander in Alexandria notices some controversy that people are arguing about. He gets a bunch of people together and says, okay, go back to your Bibles, let's figure this out. And Arius says, the son is kind of like the new, sits the highest created thing, but it is a created thing. Athanasius: If you're only going to get some like little lesser God, then like, what's the point?

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