Following the Protestant Reformation (1517), nontrinitarian views resurfaced. Some schools of the Anabaptist umbrella, for example, the most numerous today include Mennonites, German Baptist Brethren, Amish and Hutterites.
Antitrinitarianism was further diversified, but people often call everyone as 'Arian', although those who are more precisely called Socinians, went further than Arius in their theology. (That the Son did not exist at all until born of the Virgin Mary, whereas the Arians believed the Son existed before the Creation, but is not eternal.)
Unitarians are similarly referred to as "Arian", although again they are a step beyond "Socinian", if denying the Virgin Birth. However, the Encyclopædia Britannica's article on Arianism says: "In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father."
Modern denominations who appear to embrace some of the principles of Arianism include Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.
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Antitrinitarianism was further diversified, but people often call everyone as 'Arian', although those who are more precisely called Socinians, went further than Arius in their theology. (That the Son did not exist at all until born of the Virgin Mary, whereas the Arians believed the Son existed before the Creation, but is not eternal.)
Unitarians are similarly referred to as "Arian", although again they are a step beyond "Socinian", if denying the Virgin Birth. However, the Encyclopædia Britannica's article on Arianism says: "In modern times some Unitarians are virtually Arians in that they are unwilling either to reduce Christ to a mere human being or to attribute to him a divine nature identical with that of the Father."
Modern denominations who appear to embrace some of the principles of Arianism include Unitarians, Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons.
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