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AETIUS (fl. 350)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 298 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AETIUS (fl. 350) , surnamed " the Atheist," founder of an extreme sect of Arians, was a native of Coele-Syria. After working as a vine-dresser and then as a goldsmith he became a travelling
doctor
 , and displayed
great
  skill in disputations on medical subjects; but his controversial power soon found a wider field for its exercise in the
great
  theological question of the time. He studied successively under the Arians, Paulinus,
bishop
  of Antioch, Athanasius,
bishop
  of
Anazarbus
 , and the presbyter Antonius of Tarsus. In 350 he was ordained a deacon by Leontius of Antioch, but was shortly afterwards forced by the orthodox party to leave that town. At the first synod of Sirmium he won a dialectic victory over the homoiousjan bishops, 13asilius and Eustathius, who sought in consequence to stir up against him the enmity of Caesar Gallus. In 356 he went to Alexandria with Eunomius (q.v.) in order to
advocate
 
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Arianism, but he was banished by Constantius. Julian recalled him from
exile
 , bestowed upon him an estate in Lesbos, and retained him for a time at his court in
Constantinople
 . Being consecrated a bishop, he used his office in the interests of Arianism by creating other bishops of that party. At the accession of Valens (364) he retired to his estate at Lesbos, but soon returned to
Constantinople
 , where he died in 367. The Anomoean sect of the Arians, of whom he was the leader, are sometimes called after him Aetians. His
work
  De Fide has been preserved in connexion with a refutation written by Epiphanius (Haer. lxxvi. 1o). Its main thought is that the Homousia, i.e. the
doctrine
  that the Son (therefore the Begotten) is essentially God, is self-contradictory, since the idea of unbegottenness is just that which constitutes the nature of God.
See A. Harnack, History of Dogma, vol. iv. passim.


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