MARÍN MENA, TOMÁS JESÚS
No
Carthaginensia
Article
Científica
01/01/2025
2-s2.0-86000288500
Arius considered that God the Father did not share his divine substance with Christ. This position led the Alexandrian heretic to a “theological solipsism” that conceives God in an eternal solitude, mostly due to the influence of Neoplatonism and its ontological monism. In contrast to the cliché that attributes the Hellenization of Christianity to the Nicene homoousios, this paper shows that the Council of Nicaea was characterized by reacting to the Hellenizing threat of Arius and by dialoguing critically with philosophy. In this sense, it is argued that the Trinitarian orthodoxy of Nicaea assumed and successfully culminated the logic of the Covenant underlying biblical monotheism, and, in addition, it ended up making a decisive turn in metaphysics through the priority of otherness and love. © 2025 Instituto Teologico de Murcia. All rights reserved.
Alterity; Arius; Hebrew metaphysics; Homoousios; Neoplatonism