Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1874 edition. Excerpt: ... II. CAUSES OF THE RISE AND SUCCESSES OF ARIANISM. (February 1872.) CAUSES OF AEIANISM. Sect. Page 1. Circumstances of the time 95 2. Tradition of the Dogma of the Holy Trinity .... 103 3. The Tradition how far complete 112 4. The Tradition how far incomplete 118 5. First, the Principatus of the Father 121 6. Its uses in spite of its ahuse 134 7. Secondly, the Syncatabasis of the Son 146 8. The Temporal Procession 150 9. The Primogenitus 153 10. Unadvisable terms or phrases on the subject .... 162 11. Thirdly, the Temporal Gennesis 181 12. The Alexandrian School . 191 13. The Asiatic Writers 196 14. The Western Writers 219 15. Conclusion 251 CAUSES OF THE RISE AND SUCCESSES OF ARIANISM. I. Circumstances Of The Time Favourable To The Success Of The Heresy. ) N reading the history of Arianism the question naturally suggests itself how it came to start into existence so suddenly and to spread with such rapidity. And a sadder reflection occurs to the Catholic student, as if the Christian body, so long and variously tried by persecution, deserved or promised better, than that its new prosperity should be marred by so deadly a heresy, and that, in every part of the orbis terra/rum, conterminously with the Church herself. It was not so with other heresies; Sabellianism, Novatianism, and Pelagianism were at least as plausible systems of doctrine, and had as able teachers; but they had no great historical career, as Arianism had. In " The Arians of the Fourth Century" I did not attempt any solution of this difficulty, though I was not ignorant of the works of Mosheim and other learned Germans, who had taken the subject in hand. Here I propose to inquire into it; and, in doing so, I shall at the same time be virtually fulfilling an..."