Eunomians

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The Eunomians were an ultra-Arian sect, named after their leader Eunomius of Cyzicus, in the 4th century.

The movement came into being around 350 and thrived in the area of Constantinople.

Teachings of the Eunomians include the following:

  • The only appropriate name for God is "Ungenerated", as all other beings were generated by him (except Jesus, who was adopted)
  • Thus, Jesus is not equivalent with God, but a lesser being
  • The existence of God is comprehesible through logic

After breaking away from the orthodox Church, and people like Didymus the Blind, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa, Apollinaris of Laodicea and Theodore of Mopsuestia arguing against them, the Eunomians were mostly dissolved by 381, and there seems to be no recorded mention of them after the middle of the 5th century.

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