Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts

Name: Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts
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ISBN: 9780198264644

ISBN-10: 019826464X

ISBN-13: 9780198264644

Edition: 1995

Authors: Daniel H. Williams

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This is a new and provocative study re-evaluating the history of the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy in the early church. Dr Williams argues that the traditional picture of Nicene ascendancy in the western church from 350 - 381 is substantially misleading, and in particular that the conventional portrait of Ambrose of Milan as one who rapidly and easily overpowered his "Arian" opponents is a fictional product derived from idealized accounts of the fifth century. Sources illustrating the struggle between the orthodox pro-Nicenes and "Arians" or Homoians, in the fourth century reveal that Latin "Arianism" was not the lifeless and theologically alien system that historians of the last…

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List price: $220.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/22/1995
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 270
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Preface


Abbreviations


Introduction



The Council of Ariminum and Homoian Supremacy



Early Pro-Nicene Campaigns: Hilary of Poitiers and Eusebius of Vercelli



Homoians and Anti-Homoians in North Italy



Ambrose's Election and Early Years in Milan



The Publication of and Reaction to Ambrose's De fide, I-II



The Achievements of the Council of Aquileia



A Homoian Revival in Milan



The Political Triumph of Nicene Catholicism in North Italy


Conclusion


Appendix I: A Chronology of Letters Attributed to Liberius of Rome


Appendix II: A Chronology of Letters Related and Attributed to Eusebius of Vercelli


Appendix III: Eusebian Authorship of De trinitate, I-VII


Appendix IV: Credal Documents of Latin Homoianism


Bibliography of Secondary Sources


Index of Names


Index of Subjects