In the late 4th century there was a deep conflict in the diocese of Milan between the Catholics and Arians.

* Anomoeanism — radical Arians of the 4th century.

Eunomius ( Εὐνόμιος ) ( died c. 393 ), one of the leaders of the extreme or " anomoean " Arians, who are sometimes accordingly called Eunomians, was born at Dacora in Cappadocia early in the 4th century.

During the 17th century, religious animosity increased, and a 1637 decree issued by Tomasz Zamoyski resulted in the expulsion of the Arians.

In 4th century Christianity, the Anomœans, also known as Anomeans, Heterousians, Aëtians, or Eunomians, were a sect of Arians who asserted that Jesus of Nazareth ( the Son ) was of a different nature and in no way like to that of God ( the Father ).

During this same period, Theodoric also had the baptistry built, today referred to as " of the Arians " in order to distinguish it from the Baptistry of Neon ( of the Orthodox ) which is about one century older.

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

He continued to lead the conflict against the Arians for the rest of his life and was engaged in theological and political struggles against the Emperors Constantine the Great and Constantius II and powerful and influential Arian churchmen, led by Eusebius of Nicomedia and others.

Constantius ' persistence in his opposition to Athanasius, combined with reports Athanasius received about the persecution of non-Arians by the new Arian bishop George of Laodicea, prompted Athanasius to write his more emotional History of the Arians, in which he described Constantius as a precursor of the Antichrist.

In fact, during his time in the Imperial court, the Eastern court and the major positions in the Eastern Church were held by Arians or Arian sympathizers.

At Grimoald's death in 671 Perctarit returned and promoted tolerance between Arians and Catholics, but he could not defeat the Arian party, led by Arachi, duke of Trento, who submitted only to his son, the philo-Catholic Cunincpert.

Though frequently called " Arians " by those on the outside, the views of Fausto Sozzini became the standard in the church, and these doctrines were quite removed from Arianism.

Pope Pius IX noted in Quartus Supra that Liberius was falsely accused by the Arians and he had refused to condemn St Athanasius.

In accepting the Trinitarian views supported by the concept of hypostatic union, those present at the Council of Chalcedon rejected the views of the Arians, modalists, and Ebionites as heresies ( these views had also been rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in AD 325 ).

Despite his protests, he was sent by the Arian King Theodoric the Great of the Ostrogoths to Constantinople to secure a moderation of Emperor Justin's decree of 523 against the Arians.

This alteration was regarded by the orthodox as so serious that Eunomians on returning to the church were rebaptized, though the Arians were not.

About the same time, he wrote to Emperor Constantius II a remonstrance against the persecutions by which the Arians had sought to crush their opponents ( Ad Constantium Augustum liber primus, of which the most probable date is 355 ).

The former of these works was not entirely approved by some members of his own party, who thought he had shown too great a forbearance towards the Arians ; he replied to their criticisms in the Apologetica ad reprehensores libri de synodis responsa.

Paulus was at once restored by the people to his see ; however the Arians seized the occasion ; Theognis of Nicaea, Theodorus of Heraclea, and other heterodox bishops, consecrated bishop Macedonius in the church of St. Paul ; and again the city became the prey of a civil war.

Born of good family in Thessalonica, he was elected by the Arians to the bishopric of Constantinople.

Jehovah's Witnesses are sometimes referred to as " modern-day Arians ", usually by their opponents.

However, the Witnesses differ from Arians by saying that the Son can fully know the Father ( something Arius himself denied ), and by the Witnesses ' denial of literal personality to the Holy Spirit ( Arius considered the Holy Spirit to be a person or a high angel, and which had a beginning as a creature, whereas the Witnesses consider the Holy Spirit to be God's " active force " or " divine breath ", which had no beginning, and is not an actual person ).

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( the " Mormons ") are sometimes accused of being Arians by their detractors.

The two available references from this work are recorded by his opponent Athanasius: the first is a report of Arius's teaching in Orations Against the Arians, 1: 5-6.

Examples include the Gnostics ( who had believed in an esoteric dualism called gnosis ), the Ebionites ( who denied the divinity of Jesus ), and the Arians ( who subordinated the Son to the Father by denying the pre-existence of Christ, thus placing Jesus as a created being ).

Earlier bishops included Peperius, who attended the Council of Nicaea ( 325 ); Saint Eusebius of Samosata, a great opponent of the Arians, killed by an Arian woman ( c. 380 ), honoured on 22 June ; Andrew, a vigorous opponent of Cyril of Alexandria and of the Council of Ephesus.

Alexandria became the centre of the first great split in the Christian world, between the Arians, named for the Alexandrian priest Arius, and their opponents, represented by Athanasius, who became Archbishop of Alexandria in 326 after the First Council of Nicaea rejected Arius's views.

After the overthrow of the Vandals by Belisarius in 534, Justinian I issued his edict of persecution, in which the Jews were classed with the Arians and heathens ..

:" The Bactrians, involved in various wars, lost not only their rule but also their freedom, as, exhausted by their wars against the Sogdians, the Arachotes, the Dranges, the Arians and the Indians, they were finally crushed, as if drawn of all their blood, by an enemy weaker than them, the Parthians.

The epithet " Arian " was also applied to the early Unitarians such as John Biddle though in denial of the pre-existence of Christ they were again largely Socinians not Arians.

* John Henry Newman, Arians of the Fourth Century, 1833

Didymus wrote many works: Commentaries on all the Psalms, the Gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of John as Against the Arians, and On the Holy Spirit, which Jerome translated into Latin.

Pope John I, the successor of Hormisdas, became alarmed ; and in 525, at the demand of Theodoric, proceeded to Constantinople to obtain the revocation of the edict against the Arians and get their churches restored to them ( Marcellinus Comes.

John does imply that Arians received favorable treatment under Leovigild, once, in connection with the Arian council convened by Leovigild in 580, where Catholic bishops were ignored.

* John Henry Newman, Arians of the Fourth Century, ( 1871 )

There is also mention of a procession accompanied by hymns, organized at Constantinople by St John Chrysostom ( c. 390-400 ) in opposition to a procession of Arians, in Sozomen.

* Newman, John Henry ; Arians of the Fourth Century ( 1833 )

That is, we must find Saxons in East Anglia, Kent, Sussex and Hampshire in the last half of the fourth century.

The German barbarians of the fourth century offered an excellent example:

`` The Germans in the fourth century were a very simple race, who comprehended little of natural laws, and who therefore referred phenomena they did not understand to supernatural intervention.

Ever since the fourth century a controversy had raged over the person of Christ.

The technique of reality confusion -- the use of paradox and riddles to shake the mind's grip on reality -- originated with fourth and third century B.C. Chinese Quietism: the koan is not basically a new device.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

Attic philosophers of the fourth century separated a celestial Aphrodite ( Aprodite Urania ) of transcendent principles with the common Aphrodite of the people ( Aphrodite Pandemos ).

One particularly fine example was included as part of the Thetford treasure from fourth century Norfolk, UK.

Incantations by mystic names were characteristic of the hybrid Gnosticism planted in Spain and southern Gaul at the end of the fourth century and at the beginning of the fifth, which Jerome connects with Basilides, and which ( according to his Epist., lxxv.

During the fourth century, the Roman emperors commonly employed foederati: Germanic irregular troops under Roman command, but organized by tribal structures.

Later, in the fourth century AD Amasus became the see of a Christian bishop and continued to flourish until the Byzantine period.

This is the interpretation given in the fourth century by Saint Ambrose, Saint Ephraem of Syria and Saint Augustine.

* This list of Roman laws of the fourth century shows laws passed by Arcadius relating to Christianity.

Furthermore, it is not clearly found in the writings of the Fathers before Augustine in the fourth century and attempts to read it back as implicit in earlier writers are flawed because it is possible to show that significant changes occurred.

Beneath the Arc is the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier from World War I. Interred here on Armistice Day 1920, it has the first eternal flame lit in Western and Eastern Europe since the Vestal Virgins ' fire was extinguished in the fourth century.

He is considered to be a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.

His works were so influential that late in the 9th century Notker the Stammerer, a monk of the Monastery of St. Gall in Switzerland, wrote that " God, the orderer of natures, who raised the Sun from the East on the fourth day of Creation, in the sixth day of the world has made Bede rise from the West as a new Sun to illuminate the whole Earth ".

Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

* Lara struck 277 runs against Australia in Sydney, his maiden Test century, the fourth highest maiden Test century by any batsman, the highest individual score in all Tests between the two teams and the fourth-highest century ever recorded against Australia by any Test batsman.

Scroll of Esther ( Megillah ) Esther is usually dated to the third or fourth century BCE.

Set in the reign of Jeroboam II ( 786-746 BC ), it was probably written in the post-exilic period, sometime between the late fifth to early fourth century BC.

In the years before the fourth century, as there was no universal and official canon of Sacred Scripture, there were no single-volume collections of Sacred Scripture.