Arianism holds that the Son is distinct from the Father and therefore subordinate to him.
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Arianism holds that the Son is distinct from the Father and therefore subordinate to him.
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Homoousianism was formally affirmed by the first two ecumenical councils; since then, Arianism has always been condemned as "the heresy or sect of Arius".
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Arianism is used to refer to other nontrinitarian theological systems of the 4th century, which regarded Jesus Christ—the Son of God, the Logos—as either a begotten creature of a similar or different substance to that of the Father, but not identical or as neither uncreated nor created in the sense other beings are created .
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Controversy over Arianism arose in the late 3rd century and persisted throughout most of the 4th century.
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Arianism had several different variants, including Eunomianism and Homoian Arianism.
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Homoian Arianism avoided the use of the word ousia to describe the relation of Father to Son, and described these as "like" each other.
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Ulfilas's translation of the Bible into Gothic language and his initial success in converting the Goths to Arianism was strengthened by later events; the conversion of Goths led to a widespread diffusion of Arianism among other Germanic tribes as well .
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Much of south-eastern Europe and central Europe, including many of the Goths and Vandals respectively, had embraced Arianism, which led to Arianism being a religious factor in various wars in the Roman Empire.
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Teachings of the first two ecumenical councils – which entirely reject Arianism – are held by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East and most churches founded during the Reformation in the 16th century or influenced by it .
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Arianism teaches that Christ's existence is contingent on the Father, and that he is ontologically subordinate to the Father.
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