Rationality and its limits in Arianism

Abstract

Having considered certain recurrent issues, such as the idea of comprehensibility of God and apopahtic theology, Dmitry Birjukov (Russian Christian Academy, St. Petersburg) looks at the rational tendencies in Arianism and, on the basis of available data, shows how from Arius and Asterius to the Neo-Arians the rationalist tendencies in theology gradually increase while apophatic element virtually disappears.

Keywords

• History of dogma
• Early Christianity
• theology
• Trinity
• apophatic theology
• dualism