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Heresy
Frank P Spinella
Heresy
Frank P Spinella
Description: It is early in the fourth century AD, and Christianity has become a religion in search of a theology. Roman persecution has ended, but doctrinal debates threaten to tear the church apart as the early church fathers strive to solve a mystery inherited from their apostolic tradition: how both Father and Son might be thought of as God, and yet as distinct, without doing violence to the tenet that God is One. Enter Arius, a Libyan priest who comes to Alexandria to preach an answer: that the Son of God is a created being of a different substance than the Father, and not fully divine. When the Archbishop condemns his teachings and banishes him from the city, Arius' local apostacy expands into a worldwide schism as bishops and clergy throughout the Mediterranean world take sides. Desperate to use the religion as a force for political unity, the Christian emperor Constantine calls a convention of bishops at Nicaea to resolve the dispute. As debate begins, a consensus answer seems out of reach--until a young Alexandrian deacon presses a solution that will forever shape orthodoxy in a different direction.
172 pages
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | March 18, 2014 |
ISBN13 | 9781498269353 |
Publishers | Resource Publications (CA) |
Pages | 172 |
Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 11 mm · 403 g |
Language | English |
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