the Son
According to Arius, the Son was a lesser being who was not eternal and of a different "essence" from God the Father. This Christology, though contrary to tradition, quickly spread through Egypt, Libya and other Roman provinces.
↻ synthesized from 3 sources
When
- First attested
- 0 CE
- Attested period
- 0 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Mentioned in the context of the Arian controversy.
Relationships
- co occurs with
- Moirai, Badb, Macha, Mórrígan, Laima, Kārta, Dēkla, Parcae, Norns, Hermes Trismegistus, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit, Micheus, Michar, Mnesinous, Hecate, God
- sibling of
- the Holy Spirit, God the Father, the Father, The Mother
- child of
- God the Father
Mentioned by
Sources
- peer reviewed
Source passages
“Arius (died 336) was a Christian priest who around the year 300 asserted that God the Father must have created the Son, indicating that the Son was a lesser being who was not eternal and of a different "essence" from God the Father.”
#1364 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The c. fourth-century Gnostic text "Trimorphic Protennoia" presents a threefold discourse of the three forms of Divine Thought: the Father, the Son, and the Mother (Sophia).”
#20789 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“...the Homousia, i.e. the doctrine that the Son (therefore the Begotten) is essentially God, is self-contradictory, since the idea of unbegottenness is just that which constitutes the nature of God.”
#43818 · extracted by nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b:free