{"id":17292,"date":"2023-05-27T01:12:24","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T01:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=17292"},"modified":"2023-05-27T13:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T13:34:27","slug":"215-semi-arians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2023\/05\/215-semi-arians\/","title":{"rendered":"215 Semi-Arians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>SEMI-ARIANS<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Were thus denominated, because, in profession, they condemned the errors of the Arians, but in reality maintained their principles, only palliating and concealing them under softer and more moderate terms.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They would not allow, with the orthodox, that the Son was of the same substance, but only of a like substance with the Father; and thus, though in expression they differed from the orthodox in a single letter only, yet in effect they denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. The Semi-arianism of the moderns consists in their maintaining that the Son was, from all eternity, begotten by the will of the Father; contrary to the doctrine of those who teach that the eternal generation is necessary. Such, at least, are the respective opinions of Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bull.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"simplefavorite-button\" data-postid=\"17292\" data-siteid=\"1\" data-groupid=\"1\" data-favoritecount=\"0\" style=\"box-shadow:none;-webkit-box-shadow:none;-moz-box-shadow:none;\"><div class=\"bookmark-off\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEMI-ARIANS\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Were thus denominated, because, in profession, they condemned the errors of the Arians, but in reality maintained their principles, only palliating and concealing them under softer and more moderate terms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>They would not allow, with the orthodox, that the Son was of the same substance, but only of a like substance with the Father; and thus, though in expression they differed from the orthodox in a single letter only, yet in effect they denied the divinity of Jesus Christ. The Semi-arianism of the moderns consists in their maintaining that the Son was, from all eternity, begotten by the will of the Father; contrary to the doctrine of those who teach that the eternal generation is necessary. Such, at least, are the respective opinions of Dr. Clarke and Bishop Bull.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":17552,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1085],"tags":[1207,1209],"class_list":["post-17292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-charles-bucks-theological-dictionary","tag-denominations","tag-theological-labels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17293,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17292\/revisions\/17293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}