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Title: The Arian Controversy

Author: H. M. Gwatkin

Release Date: May 11, 2006 [EBook #18377]

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Epochs of Church History

EDITED BY THE

RIGHT HON. AND RIGHT REV. MANDELL CREIGHTON, D.D.

LATE LORD BISHOP OF LONDON

THE

ARIAN CONTROVERSY.

BY

H.M. GWATKIN, M.A.

DIXIE PROFESSOR OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY IN THE
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

_SIXTH IMPRESSION_

LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO.
39 PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON
NEW YORK, BOMBAY, AND CALCUTTA
1908

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CONTENTS.

PAGE
LIST OF WORKS ix

CHAPTER I.
THE BEGINNINGS OF ARIANISM 1

CHAPTER II.
THE COUNCIL OF NICAEA 16

CHAPTER III.
THE EUSEBIAN REACTION 41

CHAPTER IV.
THE COUNCIL OF SARDICA 61

CHAPTER V.
THE VICTORY OF ARIANISM 80

CHAPTER VI.
THE REIGN OF JULIAN 105

CHAPTER VII.
THE RESTORED HOMOEAN SUPREMACY 118

CHAPTER VIII.
THE FALL OF ARIANISM 147

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 169

INDEX 173

LIST OF WORKS.

The following works will be found useful by students who are willing to
pursue the subject further. Some of special interest or importance are
marked with an asterisk.

(A.) ORIGINAL AUTHORITIES AND TRANSLATIONS.

The Church Histories of *Socrates, Sozomen, Theodoret, and (for the
Arian side) the fragments of Philostorgius [translations in Bohn's
_Ecclesiastical Library_].

*Eusebius, _Vita Constantini_ and _Contra Marcellum Ancyranum_.

*Athanasius, especially _De Incarnatione Verbi Dei_, _De Decretis Synodi
Nicaenae_, _Orationes contra Arianos_, _De Synodis_, _Ad Antiochenos_, _Ad
Afros_. Convenient editions of most of these by Professor Bright of
Oxford. [Translations o