See also:AETIUS (fl. 350)
, surnamed " the Atheist," founder of an extreme See also:sect of Arians, was a native of Coele-See also:Syria
.
After working as a See also:vine-See also:dresser and then as a See also:goldsmith he became a travelling See also:doctor, and displayed See also:great skill in disputations on medical subjects; but his controversial See also:power soon found a wider See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field for its exercise in the great theological question of the See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time
.
He studied successively under the Arians, See also:Paulinus, See also:bishop of See also:Antioch, See also:Athanasius, bishop of See also:Anazarbus, and the See also:presbyter See also:Antonius of See also:Tarsus
.
In 350 he was ordained a See also:deacon by See also:Leontius of Antioch, but was shortly afterwards forced by the orthodox party to leave that See also:town
.
At the first See also:synod of Sirmium he won a See also:dialectic victory over the homoiousjan bishops, 13asilius and See also:Eustathius, who sought in consequence to stir up against him the enmity of See also:Caesar See also:Gallus
.
In 356 he went to See also:Alexandria with See also:Eunomius (q.v.) in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to See also:advocate Arianism, but he was banished by See also:Constantius
.
See also:Julian recalled him from See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile, bestowed upon him an See also:estate in See also:Lesbos, and retained him for a time at his See also:court in See also:Constantinople
.
Being consecrated a bishop, he used his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the interests of Arianism by creating other bishops of that party
.
At the See also:accession of See also:Valens (364) he retired to his estate at Lesbos, but soon returned to Constantinople, where he died in 367
.
The Anomoean sect of the Arians, of whom he was the See also:leader, are sometimes called after him Aetians
.
His See also:work De Fide has been preserved in connexion with a refutation written by See also:Epiphanius (Haer. lxxvi
.
1o)
.
Its See also:main thought is that the Homousia, i.e. the See also:doctrine that the Son (therefore the Begotten) is essentially See also:God, is self-contradictory, since the See also:idea of unbegottenness is just that which constitutes the nature of God
.
See A
.
See also:Harnack, See also:History of See also:Dogma, vol. iv. passim
.
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