The Nicene Creed outlines what homoousios is, and states that Jesus and God are of the same essence, which is what Aetius is essentially trying to refute.

In thesis 24 Aetius states: “ If ingeneracy is privation, and privation loss of state, and if the lost is entirely destroyed or changed into something else, how can a state which is in process of changing or being destroyed be called the Deity ’ s essence by the title of “ The Ingenerate ” 12.

He continues this same type of logic when in thesis 26 he states that “ If " The Ingenerate " is a mere name with God, but its mere utterance elevates the substance of God over against all the generated beings …”, this is showing again that Aetius believes that the name associated with God elevates him to a position of superiority over all other beings 15.

Antioch had become one of the focal points for Arianism, and Aetius outlined some theses in defense of the idea of the incongruity of the nature and essence of the Father and the Son.

Aetius continues arguments in his theses 19, 20, 21, 24 and 25, that his negative definition of God is not evidence of privation.

Aetius also goes on to describe the nature of the names of God and Jesus in thesis 17, and describes how Jesus not being referred to as “ God ” or the “ Father ”, is a clear indication of his inferiority in relation to God 14.

Aetius outlines this in thesis 13 by stating “ If external observation ascribes ingeneracy to the Deity, the observers are superior to the observed, having furnished. him with a title superior to his nature 17 ”.

Aetius ' believed that God was ingenerate, meaning that he was greater than anyone else who had existed, including Jesus 9.

In the fourth century Aetius and Eunomius maintained that, because the Divine nature is simple, excluding all composition or multiplicity, the various terms and names applied to God are to be considered synonymous.

Aetius also finds it troubling that if Jesus is unchangeable in nature by the reason of the one who generated him, then ingeneracy is unchangeable essence, not by the virtue of its will, but of its internal ranking or state of being ‘ un generated ’ 21.

Aetius believes that this belief that Jesus and God are the same, detracts from the unchanging nature of God.

* Flavius Aetius is sent as a child hostage at the court of Alaric I, king of the Visigoths.

Aetius is granted the title of patricius ( Roman nobility ).

Flavius Aetius ( magister militum ) is unable to raise a new army against him.

* Attila, age 12, is sent as child hostage to the court at Rome and in return, the Romans sent Flavius Aetius to the Huns.

Under the influence of Aetius, he is convicted of treason by empress-mother Galla Placidia.

* March 16 – Emperor Valentinian III, age 35, is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers of the late Flavius Aetius, ending the Theodosian Dynasty.

Aetius has enough problems with Attila the Hun and is unable to send any help.

For part of the first book and much of the second, it is clear that he depended on the ( lost ) works of the Peripatetic philosopher Aetius and the Stoic philosopher Arius Didymus.

Seleucus is known from the writings of Plutarch, Aetius, and Strabo, all of whom were Greeks, and the Persian Muhammad ibn Zakariya al-Razi.

The reference to Aetius ' third consulship ( 446 ) is useful in dating the increasing strife in Britain during this period.

# Invasion of Gaul by Attila – He is repulsed by Aetius and the Visigoths – Attila Invades and Evacuates Italy – The Deaths of Attila, Aetius, and Valentinian III – Symptoms of the Ruin of the Roman Government

Heraclius is identified as " a eunuch who had the greatest influence with the emperor " and his associate in murdering Aetius.

: This article is about Aetius of Antioch the 4th-century CE theologian ; for Aetius of Antioch the 1st-century BCE philosopher, see Aetius ( philosopher ).

Aetius is one of the primary people who drew from this philosophy and

Aetius himself complains about the temporalists, whom he considers Gregory to be one, and believe that they dwell too much on the concept of time, and also their belief that time is a necessary aspect of the Anomean beliefs 8.

The daughter of the magister militum then married an officer, probably called Donninus, who administered the finances of Aetius, the powerful magister militum of the West.

He then started a military career: he served under the magister militum Aetius in his campaign against the Juthungi and the Norics ( 430 – 431 ) and also against the Burgundians ( 436 ).

The teaching of the Anomoean school, led by Aetius and Eunomius, starting from the conception of God as Creator, argued that between the Creator and created there could be no essential, but at best only a moral, resemblance.

Aetius seems to be the first Greek medical writer among the Christians who gives any specimen of the spells and charms so much in vogue with the Egyptians, such as that of Saint Blaise in removing a bone which sticks in the throat, and another in relation to a fistula.

Aetius was not Aristotelian, and was not orthodox either, but he seemed to be much closer to an Aristotelian Neoplatonist 5.

Aetius believes that the logic of privation does not apply to this negation, and that in order for it to be a privation, there has to have been something lost from the original characteristic, eg: being crippled is a privation, for being able to walk was the original state.

It is clear in Aetius ’ arguments that he does not believe the father and the son to be of the same essence.

Marcellinus was the comes rei militaris ( governor ) of Illyricum, but he had become practically independent since the death of Aetius, non recognising the imperial authority ; Majorian had convinced him to accept him as Emperor and even to collaborate with his troops with the military recovery of the Empire.

Here he lived until 451, when the Huns, led by Attila, invaded the Western Roman Empire ; Avitus persuaded Theodoric into an alliance with Rome, and the combined forces of Theodoric and Aetius defeated Attila in the Battle of Châlons ; Theodoric died in the battle.

Three other bishops are also known, Hilarius, 381 ; Callistratus, somewhat later ; Aetius, 451.

In particular, the army ’ s support was split between three main candidates: Maximianus, the former domesticus (" bodyguard ") of Aëtius, who was the son of an Egyptian merchant named Domninus who had become rich in Italy ; the future emperor Majorian, who commanded the army after the death of Aetius and who had the backing of the Empress Licinia Eudoxia ; and Maximus himself, who had the support of the Roman Senate and who in the end, on 17 March, defeated his rivals and secured the throne by distributing money to officials of the imperial palace.

Stilicho continued negotiations with Alaric ; Flavius Aetius, son of one of Stilicho's major supporters, was sent as a hostage to Alaric in 405.

After some fighting, Placidia and Aetius came to an agreement ; the Huns were paid off and sent home, while Aetius received the position of magister militum.

Roughly speaking, there were at this period only three parties in the Church: the Nicene party, who sympathized for the most part with Athanasius and his supporters ; the Eusebian or Court party and their Semi-Arian followers ; and, last of all, the Anomoean party which owed its origin to Aetius.

Throughout their raids on the Eastern Roman Empire, the Huns had still maintained good relations with the Western Empire ; this was due in no small part to a friendship with Flavius Aetius, a powerful Roman general ( sometimes even referred to as the de facto ruler of the Western Empire ) who had spent some time with the Huns.

What Aetius is trying to say is that the name of God is present, whether there are individuals who correctly observe that name or not ; but that the name is not so much given to God, as much as it is discovered.