Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online

Get access

Eunomianism
(2,664 words)

This essay will consider the teaching of Eunomius of Cyzicus and/or his followers as a systematic whole. The ancients rarely described ideological movements as “-isms” in our sense; they were much more likely to classify them in terms of a characteristic doctrine (“homoousians,” “heteroousians,” “anomoeans”) or an eponymous leader (“Athanasians,” “Arians,” “Eunomians”). Since these terms were almost always…

Cite this page
Vaggione, OHC, Richard Paul, “Eunomianism”, in: Brill Encyclopedia of Early Christianity Online, General Editor David G. Hunter, Paul J.J. van Geest, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte. Consulted online on 27 September 2023 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/2589-7993_EECO_SIM_040683>
First published online: 2019



▲   Back to top   ▲