Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345

Sara Parvis

OUP Oxford, Mar 2, 2006 - Religion - 291 pages

Is it true, as has often been claimed in recent years, that there was no real controversy in the period immediately following the Council of Nicaea? Sara Parvis, in this lively and meticulous study, argues not. She shows that the two opposing parties which had formed in support of Alexander of Alexandria and Arius in the years before Nicaea continued their activities afterwards, targeting one another with ruthless zeal at a series of synods which may look neutral but are revealed to be demonstrably partisan. Only the deaths of all the original party leaders except Marcellus of Ancyra, and the rise of Athanasius, broke the impasse which followed and allowed new political and theological configurations to form.

About the author

Sara Parvis is Lecturer in Patristics at the University of Edinburgh.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Marcellus of Ancyra and the Lost Years of the Arian Controversy 325-345; Oxford Early Christian Studies
• Author: Sara Parvis
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: OUP Oxford, 2006
• ISBN: 0199280134, 9780199280131
• Length: 291 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Church / History; Religion / Christian Theology / General; Religion / Christianity / History