Arian Christian

Examples of Arian Christian in the following topics:

• The Development of Papal Supremacy

  • In the early Christian era, Rome and a few other cities had claims on the leadership of the worldwide church.
  • Many soldiers in his army were Christians, and his army was his base of power.
  • Partially to distinguish themselves from Arians, Catholic devotion to Mary became more prominent.
  • In 380, the Edict of Thessalonica declared Nicene Christianity, as opposed to Arianism, to be the state religion of the empire, with the name "Catholic Christians" reserved for those who accepted that faith.
  • After the fall of the Western Roman Empire, barbarian tribes were converted to Arian Christianity or Catholicism; Clovis I, king of the Franks, was the first important barbarian ruler to convert to Catholicism rather than Arianism, allying himself with the papacy.

• Odoacer and the Fall of Rome

  • Although Odoacer was an Arian Christian, he rarely intervened in the affairs of the orthodox and trinitarian state church of the Roman Empire.

• The Rise of Christianity

  • Christianity posed a serious threat to the traditional Romans.
  • As such, Christianity was considered criminal and was punished harshly.
  • Christians were never purged systematically in any part of the empire, and Christian evasion continually undermined the edicts' enforcement.
  • Although the persecution resulted in death, torture, imprisonment, or dislocation for many Christians, the majority of the empire's Christians avoided punishment.
  • Christianity became the greatest beneficiary of imperial largesse.

• Theoderic the Great

  • While he promoted separation between the Arian Ostrogoths and the Roman population, Theoderic stressed the importance of racial harmony, though intermarriage was outlawed.
  • The rest was ruled by Sigismund's Arian brother Godomar, under Gothic protection against the Franks who had captured Sigismund.
  • Theoderic may have tried too hard to accommodate the various people under his dominion; indulging "Romans and Goths, Catholics and Arians, Latin and barbarian culture" resulted in the eventual failure of the Ostrogothic reign and the subsequent "end of Italy as the heartland of late antiquity."

• Constantine

  • The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the proclamation of the Edict of Milan in 313, which decreed tolerance for Christianity in the empire.
  • He called the First Council of Nicaea in 325, at which the Nicene Creed was professed by Christians.
  • Historians remain uncertain about Constantine's reasons for favoring Christianity, and theologians and historians have argued about which form of Early Christianity he subscribed to.
  • Some scholars question the extent to which he should be considered a Christian emperor: "Constantine saw himself as an 'emperor of the Christian people.'
  • In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan decriminalizing Christian worship.

• Danish Intervention

  • Christian IV had also profited greatly from his policies in northern Germany.
  • Denmark's King Christian IV had obtained for his kingdom a level of stability and wealth that was virtually unmatched elsewhere in Europe.
  • Some 13,700 Scottish soldiers were to be sent as allies to help Christian IV under the command of General Robert Maxwell, 1st Earl of Nithsdale.
  • Christian, who knew nothing of Wallenstein's forces when he invaded, was forced to retire before the combined forces of Wallenstein and Tilly.
  • Christian IV receives homage from the countries of Europe as mediator in the Thirty Years' War.

• Culture and Religion in Pre-Islamic Arabia

  • After Constantine conquered Byzantium in 324 CE, Christianity spread to Arabia.
  • Traditionally, both Jews and Christians believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, for Jews the God of the Tanakh, for Christians the God of the Old Testament, the creator of the universe. 
  • The northwest was under the influence of Christian missionary activity from the Roman Empire, where the Ghassanids, residents of a client kingdom of the Romans, were converted to Christianity.
  • In the south, particularly at Najran, a center of Christianity developed as a result of the influence of the Christian kingdom of Axum based on the other side of the Red Sea in Ethiopia.
  • Both the Ghassanids and the Christians in the south adopted Monophysitism.

• The Reconquista

  • In a minor battle known as the Battle of Covadonga, a Muslim force sent to put down the Christian rebels in the northern mountains was defeated by Pelagius of Asturias, who established the monarchy of the Christian Kingdom of Asturias.
  • Under his son, other Christian cities were subjected to numerous raids.
  • Medieval Spain was the scene of almost constant warfare between Muslims and Christians.
  • Faced with the choice of death, conversion, or emigration, many Jews and Christians left.
  • The Taifa kingdoms lost ground to the Christian realms in the north.

• The Eastern Roman Empire, Constantine the Great, and Byzantium

  • The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played an influential role in the development of Christianity as the religion of the empire.
  • Constantine was the first emperor to stop Christian persecutions and to legalise Christianity along with all other religions and cults in the Roman Empire.
  • The edict stated that Christians should be allowed to follow the faith without oppression.
  • Helena's Christianity in his youth, or whether he adopted it gradually over the course of his life.
  • According to Christian writers, Constantine was over 40 when he finally declared himself a Christian, writing to Christians to make clear that he believed he owed his successes to the protection of the Christian High God alone.

• Vladimir I and Christianization

  • The first mention of any attempts to bring Christianity to Rus' appears around 860.
  • The major player in the Christianization of the Rus' world is traditionally considered Vladimir I.
  • He also announced he would Christianize Kievan Rus' if he was offered a desirable marriage tie.
  • A Christian representation of Vladimir I, who was the first Rus' leader to officially bring Christianity to the region.
  • Outline the shift from pagan culture to Orthodox Christianity under the rule of Vladimir I