Church History Midterm Notes

Extreme Oneness Same Nature Difference

Sabellius (Modalism) Tertullian Origen

1. Father, Son, and Spirit are 1 person
2. Chronological / Modalistic
Monarchianism (OT God, NT Jesus, Post-
Resurrection Spirit) God shifted
transmission gears
3. 3 Faces of God
1. 3 distinct individuations, same nature 1. Divine by Participation
2. Origen is trying to explain Christianity
2. God Monarch, Jesus and Holy Spirit
from a Platonic view
lieutenants
3. True God from True God
4. Wrote Against Praxeas

Paul of Samosata Athanasius Arius (Aryanism)

1. Dynamic Monarchianism (not strictly 1. Creator / Creature Divide 1. “You are my son, today I have
begotten you.”
chronological) 2. No Hercules or Achilles
2. Christ was created.
2. God can represent as three due to 3. Word Became Flesh for the Works of
3. Christ is different from God the
omnipresence Salvation
Father.
3. God is still one
4. “There was when he was not.” -
Thalia
5. Philo of Alexandria - 7 names for
logos
6. Eusebius of Nicodemia agrees with
Arius

Greek Concept Who was Which views were Timeline / etc.

responsible? tossed?
Homoousious Same Athanasius Neither views Council of Nicaea
Nature / tossed 325
(could also mean)
Same
Person

Homoios Similar Bishops realized Seballian tossed, -Post-Council of Nicaea

there was still a Aryan embraced Reaction to “same nature”
problem -Aryan emperors agreeing 329-361
-Eusebius, friend of Constantine,
helped release Arius from jail

Homoiousios Similar Eustasthius & Tosses both

Nature Melitius Seballian and
counteract Aryan views
extremes, get 55
bishops to join
them

Heteroousios Different Arius

Nature

Pneumatamachoi Fighters Basil writes against this. The Holy

Against Spirit is a member of the Godhead.
The
Spirit

3 Hypostasis 3 Persons, Council of Constantinople 381

Homoousios Same Nature