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The Dictionary of Historical Theology is a major reference work designed for anyone interested in the history and development of Christian theology. Featuring 314 articles on the key figures, theological movements, and significant texts that have shaped Christian thought, Dictionary of Historical Theology traces the doctrinal development of Christianity from the early church to the present....

unlike (anomoios) in being. Whereas earlier Arian thinkers had tended to emphasize the apophatic nature of knowledge of God, Aetius and his successor, *Eunomius, insisting on God as ingenerate, seemed to argue that God’s essence was comprehensible by the human mind. By the time of the Council of Constantinople of 381 Arianism was on the wane, with Nicene orthodoxy triumphant. The creed produced by this council (which emphatically endorsed the theology of Nicaea) included a phrase on the Spirit, who
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