Arian
pronunciation
How to pronounce Arian in British English:
UK [ˈɛəriən]
How to pronounce Arian in American English:
US [ˈɛriən, ˈær-]
Word Origin
- Arian (adj.)
- 1530s, pertaining to the doctrines of Arius, priest in Alexandria early 4c., who posed the question of Christ's nature in terms which appeared to debase the Savior's relation to God (denial of consubstantiation). Besides taking an abstract view of Christ's nature, he reaffirmed man's capacity for perfection. The dissention was widespread and split the Church for about a century during a crucial time.
Example
- 1. The last anathema attacked another arian teaching .
- 2. It was the ultimate scope of arian opposition to what christians had always believed .
- 3. The purpose was dear , to deny arian ism and to assert that , in spite of the intellectual difficulties involved , jesus was not a creature or a demigod but god .
- 4. The arian party held that christ was a created being , in substance unlike the father .
- 5. It was to him that constantine , with the new arian crisis confronting him , now turned .