LUTHER 1527 The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.

LUTHER 1527

So too, that Christ’s body is both in heaven and in the Supper is a contradiction, says Oecolampadius, and so it is in his eyes. Yes, but no one asked him to teach us his say-so, and what appears to him to be thus and so, but what God says and how it is in God’s eyes. There he lies helpless, yet he must do as we have said if he wishes to make his teaching certain and sure. Here let them answer, here let us see how they will crack their heads. But they do not do it. They will grumble something foolish and pipe a different tune, in order to keep men from noticing how they are being forced into a tight spot.

The Arian Controversy down to the Council of Nicaea, 318-325.

Arianism proceeded from the bosom of the Catholic church, was condemned as heresy at the council of Nicaea, but afterwards under various forms attained even ascendency for a time in the church, until at the second ecumenical council it was cast out forever. From that time it lost its importance as a politico-theological power, but continued as an uncatholic sect more than two hundred years among the Germanic nations, which were converted to Christianity under the Arian domination.
HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH Schaff Volume 3 NICENE AND POST-NICENE CHRISTIANTY A.D. 311-600
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