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It is considered heretical by most modern mainstream branches of Christianity. [2] It is held by a minority of modern denominations, [ 3 ] although some of these denominations hold related doctrines such as Socinianism , and some shy away from use of the term Arian due to the term's historically negative connotations.
By the 19th century, theories which were based on the belief that Jesus was a member of the so-called "Aryan race", and in particular, theories which were based on the belief that his appearance was Nordic, were developed and later, they appealed to advocates of the new racial antisemitism, who did not want to believe that Jesus was Jewish ...
According to Eusebius's work, The Life of Constantine, the controversy had spread from Alexandria into almost all the African regions, and was considered a disturbance of the public order by the Roman Empire. Constantine the Great (Constantine I) sent two letters to Arius and Bishop Alexander, asking the religious leaders to stop the ...
Considered a transitional figure from British Israelism to Christian Identity rather than its actual founder, [12] Rand is known for coining the term "Christian Identity". [13] Raised as a British Israelite, his father introduced him to J. H. Allen 's work Judah's Sceptre and Joseph's Birthright (1902) at an early age by offering him five ...
The sculpture emphasizes what the Nazi Party considered to be desirable Aryan characteristics. Aryanism , is an ideology of German racial supremacy which views the supposed Aryan race as a distinct and superior racial group which is entitled to rule the rest of humanity.
Arius (/ ə ˈ r aɪ ə s, ˈ ɛər i-/; Koinē Greek: Ἄρειος, romanized: Áreios; 250 or 256 – 336) was a Cyrenaic presbyter and ascetic.He has been regarded as the founder of Arianism, [1] [2] which holds that Jesus Christ was not coeternal with God the Father, but was rather created before time.
Renan had acknowledged the importance of the ancient civilisations of Mesopotamia, Israel etc. but called the Semitic races inferior to the Aryan for their monotheism, which he held to arise from their supposed lustful, violent, unscrupulous and selfish racial instincts. Steinthal summed up these predispositions as "Semitism", and so ...
Use of Aryan to designate a "white non-Jewish person, especially one of northern European origin or descent" entered the English language from German, [1] after this meaning was introduced in 1887 and further developed by German anti-Semitic propagandists in the context of a so-called "Aryan race". [21]