pure and uncompounded, was that of the early ages of Christianity . . . Nor was the unity of the Supreme Being ousted from the Christian creed by the force of reason, but by the sword of civil government, wielded at the will of the Athanasius. The hocus-pocus phantasm of a God like ...
have disappeared. Most churchmen preferred the middle ground; loyal to the Origenist tradition, they suspected theNicene Creedof opening the door toSabellianismbut were equally shocked by Arianism in its more uncompromising forms.Eusebius of Caesarea(c.260–c.340) was their spokesman, and for ...