tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post3437588152358677766..comments2023-08-13T11:58:31.588-04:00Comments on Ghulf Genes: Arius and His ConvertsADhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-34083087338651506582014-03-15T11:20:07.150-04:002014-03-15T11:20:07.150-04:00That "hand on the column" delighted me t...That "hand on the column" delighted me too when I stumbled upon it. Didn't know that Isaac Newton belongs here too. The shadow of Arius is long...ADhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06408980212433714362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3547067420689722925.post-55225167152385128312014-03-11T18:11:31.737-04:002014-03-11T18:11:31.737-04:00I love the Hand on the Column!
Whenever I teach B...I love the Hand on the Column!<br /><br />Whenever I teach Boethius, I always have to do some background on this, and one of the things I do is point out that the followers of Arius and his allies are known as Arians, while the followers of Athanasius and his allies are know as the Orthodox Catholics or Catholic Orthodox, and ask what you can tell about the dispute simply from the names!<br /><br />I think you're right that Arius, clever as he seems to have been (even his enemies never deny his intelligence), is really a more minor figure than one would think -- in a sense he was just the person who happened by accident to press the matter so far as to get condemned by a major Church council, and 'Arians' afterward don't actually seem to be very interested in following Arius himself -- they are Arians for their own reasons. And broadly Arian ideas seem to arise spontaneously every so often -- early modern Arians like Isaac Newton or Samuel Clarke, for instance, didn't set out to follow Arius; they started to defend Arius because they came to positions that looked a lot like his.Brandonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06698839146562734910noreply@blogger.com