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arianist

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Noun1.arianist - an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God)
Christian - a religious person who believes Jesus is the Christ and who is a member of a Christian denomination


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In other words, the responsible for the dogma, inside the new roman and catholic Church, is now condemning, as heretics, those who, under the name of Gnostics, have identified Jesus Christ with a celestial eon which body is made of ether, and those who, under the name of Arianists, have seen in Jesus a man with flesh and bones who have become divine after his crucifixon (assuming he became divine in that circumstance).
You don't become a Lutheran by using Kant, a Catholic by reading Hegel, an Arianist by doing mathematical astronomy, a Presbyterian by solving Maxwell's equations, or a French Jew when you analyze a Persian Palace.
The great nineteenth-century theologian, Cardinal John Henry Newman, was fond of citing the early Arianist controversy as an example of the laity, often at odds with the views of their bishops, helping to preserve the orthodox faith.
 
 
 
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