JAN. 31: THE CHURCH DIVIDED: HERESY, SCHISM AND SCANDAL IN THE FOURTH AND FIFTH CENTURIES

 

The Good Shepherd, who warns us:  "Beware of wolves in sheep's clothing."

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The Trinity:  Is God One or Three?

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Is the Son equally God, or an inferior created being?

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The Stakes:  Where you'll go if you get it wrong

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A heretic gets what he deserves:  the death of Arius

"As he approached the place called Constantine's Forum, where the column of porphyry is erected..."

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"...a terror arising from the remorse of conscience seized Arius, and with that terror a violent relaxation of the bowels:  he therefore enquired whether there was a convenient place near, and being directed to the back of Constantine's Forum, he hastened thither.  Soon after a faintness came over him, and together with the evacuations his bowels protruded..."

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The Fifth Century Controversies:  The Nature of Christ

 

Mary, Mother of God (Theotokos)

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How to resolve it?  Summon a Council:

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