Download or read book Archetypal Heresy written by Maurice Wiles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arianism started as a movement in the third century AD - maintaining that Jesus was less divine than God. Traditionally regarded as the archetypal Christian heresy, it was condemned in the famous Nicene Creed and apparently squashed by the early church. Less well known is the fact that fifteen centuries later, Arianism was alive and well, championed by Isaac Newton and other scientists of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. Maurice Wiles asks how and why Arianism endured.