Arianism: Roman Heresy and Barbarian Creed

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Routledge, 15 apr 2016 - 400 pagine
This is the first volume to attempt a comprehensive overview of the evolution of the 'Arian' churches in the Roman world of Late Antiquity and their political importance in the late Roman kingdoms of the 5th-6th centuries, ruled by barbarian warrior elites. Bringing together researchers from the disciplines of theology, history and archaeology, and providing an extensive bibliography, it constitutes a breakthrough in a field largely neglected in historical studies. A polemical term coined by the Orthodox Church (the side that prevailed in the Trinitarian disputes of the 4th century C.E.) for its opponents in theology as well as in ecclesiastical politics, Arianism has often been seen as too complicated to understand outside the group of theological specialists dealing with it and has therefore sometimes been ignored in historical studies. The studies here offer an introduction to the subject, grounded in the historical context, then examine the adoption of Arian Christianity among the Gothic contingents of the Roman army, and its subsequent diffusion in the barbarian kingdoms of the late Roman world.
 

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Preface
1a Ulfila und der sogenannte gotische Arianismus Knut Schäferdiek
1b Ulfila and the socalled Gothic Arianism English Summary Knut
Orthodox or Arian? Paul Parvis
The Homoians Uta Heil
Deconstruction of the Socalled Germanic Arianism Hanns Christof Brennecke
Vulfila pontifex ipseque primas Gothorum minorum sed non apostolus eorum
Brendan Wolfe
The NonArchaeology of Arianism What Comparing Cases in Carthage
The ecclesia legis Gothorum and the Role of Arianism in Ostrogothic Italy
The Lombards and the Ghost of Arianism Piero
Arianism and Ethnic Identity in SixthCentury Visigothic Spain Manuel Koch
The Homoians in Gaul Uta Heil
Approaching Controversy on the Western Fringes of the Roman
The Elusive Nature of an Orthodox Heresy

Barbarian Arian Clergy Church Organization and Church Practices Ralph

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Guido M. Berndt is a researcher at the Department of Ancient History, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; Roland Steinacher is a historian specialising in Roman History at the Institut für Mittelalterforschung of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and teaches at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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