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'''Semi-Arianism''' is a name that has been used for identifying a position that held to a version of the [[Nicene Creed]] that omitted the formula “of One Substance”. This position was taken after the [[First Ecumenical Council]] in 325 condemned [[Arianism]] as heresy by those Christians who kept a Trinitarian view but in practice took a compromised stand whereby they remained in [[communion]] with Arians without adopting Arianism itself. The group, led by Bishop [[Basil of Ancyra]], advocated the use of the term ''Homoiousios'' over that of ''homoousios'', an ''iota'' of difference that denied the consubstantiality of Christ. During this time the Arians, who took the original position of Arius that Jesus of Nazareth was of a different nature from and in no way like that of God the Father, were known as ''[[Anomoeanism|Anomoeans]]'', from ''anomoios'', unlike.
After the First Ecumenical Council’s decision on Arianism, strong efforts continued to be exerted by some bishops, who were to be termed Semi-Arians, who had denied being Arians, to find a compromise position between the use of ''homoousios'' (of One Substance) in the Nicene Creed and the Arian position that Jesus Christ was subordinate to, and unlike, God the Father. These bishops, who were not firm Arians and supported the Nicene Creed at the First Ecumenical Council at [[Nicea]] yet were not fully Orthodox Trinitarian themselves, received repentant Arians to communion. The semi-arian bishops were among those who had agreed to the [[deposition]] of St [[Athanasius of Alexandria]] at Tyre in 335.
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