Arianism Revisited: An Introduction to Non-Nicene Theologies

Brendan Wolfe, Mattias Gassman & Oliver Langworthy
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  • ISBN: 8889833858, 9798889833857
  • Page count: 174
  • Published: 2025
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Fortress Press

The volume gives a broad overview of ancient non-Nicene theologies; surveys key councils and events from before Nicaea until the final demise of institutional non-Nicene Christianity in 589; and lays out both the historical background and the theological underpinnings of the thought of Arius himself and of his allies and their successors, down to the repudiation of non-Nicene Christianity by the Germanic kingdoms. This content is organized around the contexts in which "Arian" thought is encountered, differentiating doctrines across time and space while also demonstrating both intellectual and personal continuity.

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Brendan Wolfe, Mattias Gassman & Oliver Langworthy

Brendan Wolfe is founder and Principal Editor of the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, an international research project building the largest open-access resource in theology. The 2023 Chair of the European Academy of Religion annual conference, he is Honorary Reader at St Andrews and Honorary Fellow at Australian Catholic University.

Mattias Gassman is assistant professor at the University of Florida. Author of the award-winning Worshippers of the Gods: Debating Paganism in the Fourth-Century Roman West (Oxford University Press, 2020), he has written numerous articles on late antique religion and is finishing a second monograph on Augustine and paganism.

Oliver Langworthy is lecturer at the University of St Andrews and academic editor for Christianity with the St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology. Author of Theodoret's Theologian: Assessing the Origin and Significance of Gregory of Nazianzus' Title (JEH Eusebius Prize Winner, 2017) and Gregory of Nazianzus' Soteriological Pneumatology (Mohr Siebeck, 2019).