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L’ homeism is a current of ancient Christianity which develops from the IV It is century as part of the Arian crisis. THE Homeans are sometimes called acaciens , named after one of their leaders, Caesarea Acace.

Homeism constitutes an intermediate position in arianism between anomeens or strict ariens – which exclude any resemblance between the father and the son – and the homoïousians – for whom the son is similar in nature To the father: for the Homeans, the son is simply similar (in Greek similar / homos ) to the father, without specifying what this similarity is. This position – that of Eusebius of Nicomedia – at the same time as this similarity of the Son with the Father, affirms the inequality of the characters of the Trinity. In addition, Hans Christof Brennecke thus defines the characteristic features of homeism: “distrust of theological speculation, strict biblicism and even partly elected against all paganism” [ first ] .

The Homean tendency will find its most remarkable expression in the second symbol of Sirmium dating from 357, during the reign of the Emperor Constance, then in the Confession of Faith of the Concile of Constantinople of 360 which will be a time the official credo of the empire [ 2 ] . This council is at the origin of the “historical arianism” which have adopted part of the barbarians, essentially the Goths, evangelized by Ulfilas present at the debates [ 3 ] .
Following Constance the Roman Emperor Valens will also promote the party Homeen while the emperor Theodosius I is will make him declare heretics through the first council of Constantinople [ 4 ] .

In addition to Acace de Césarée, there are among the Eusese Homeans of Emesis and Georges de Laodicée. Homeism, however, does not form a coherent current strictly speaking and its proponents sometimes claim to be Arius, sometimes from North Orthodoxy: during the Council which takes place in Aquilea in 381 a bishop HOMEmes named after Palladius, responsible for the Mésie ratiaria episcopate thus claims to reject Arius [ 5 ] .

  1. ↑ H. C. Brennecke, in Studies … , cf. Bibliography; quoted by Xavier Morales, Alexandria’s Trinitarian Theology of Athanase , ed. Institute of Augustinian Studies, 2006, p. 272
  2. ↑ Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, The search for the Christian doctrine of God: the Arian controversy 318-381 , éd. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p. 557-559
  3. ↑ Pierre Maraval, Constantine’s Christianity to the Arab conquest , PUF, 1997, p. 333 .
  4. ↑ Catherine Saliou, The Middle East: from Pompey to Muhammad, ier s. av. AD – VIIE S. apr. J.-C. , Belin, coll. “Ancient worlds”, , 608 p. (ISBN  978-2-7011-9286-4 , Online presentation ) , chap. 3 (“Polytheism, monotheisms: multiplicity of religious cults and innovations”), p. 189 .
  5. ↑ Jacques Zeiller, Christian origins in the Danubian provinces of the Roman Empire , and. Anastatica, 1967, p. 226-227 , on line

Bibliography [ modifier | Modifier and code ]

  • (of) Hanns Christof Brennecke, Studies on the history of home , Volume 73 of Contributions to historical theology , Éd. Mohr Siebeck, 1988, Online extracts
  • (in) Daniel H. Williams, Ambrose, Emperors and Homoians in Milan : The First Conflict overa Basilica , in Arianism after Arius , éd. M. Barnes and D. Williams, 1993, p. 127-146
  • (in) Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, The search for the Christian doctrine of God: the Arian controversy 318-381 , éd. Continuum International Publishing Group, 2005, p. 557-597 , Online extracts

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