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Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts (Hardcover, New)
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Ambrose of Milan and the End of the Arian-Nicene Conflicts (Hardcover, New)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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This is a new and provocative study re-evaluating the history of
the struggle between orthodoxy and heresy in the early church. Dr
Williams argues that the traditional picture of Nicene ascendancy
in the western church from 350 - 381 is substantially misleading,
and in particular that the conventional portrait of Ambrose of
Milan as one who rapidly and easily overpowered his "Arian"
opponents is a fictional product derived from idealized accounts of
the fifth century. Sources illustrating the struggle between the
orthodox pro-Nicenes and "Arians" or Homoians, in the fourth
century reveal that Latin "Arianism" was not the lifeless and
theologically alien system that historians of the last century
would have us believe. Dr Williams shows that the majority of
churches in the West had little practical use for the Nicene creed
until the end of the 350s - over twenty five years after it was
first issued under Constantine - and that the ultimate triumph of
the Nicene faith was not as inevitable as it has been assumed.
Ambrose himself was seriously harrassed by sustained attacks from
"Arians" in Milan for the first decade of his episcopate, and his
early career demonstrates the severity of the religious conflict
which embroiled the western churches,especially in North Italy.
Only after an intense and uncertain decade did Ambrose finally
prevail in Milan once the Nicene form of faith was embraced by the
Roman empire through imperial legislation and "Arianism" was
outlawed as heresy. This is an innovative and challenging book full
of illumination new insights on the social, political, and
theological entanglements ofthe early church.
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