> ... At the moment I am awaiting correction from some lurking
> arianizing liberatarian on my analysis of the first council of Nicea.
An Athanasian libertarian socialist, I probably don't qualify -- but I would contest a bit your reading of the political implications of 4th and 5th century Xn theology (the argument surely not being over before Chalcedon, in 451 CE). As G. H. Williams pointed out years ago, the imperial court was Arian because they understood that Arianism was a hierarchical model -- as in the godhead, so in the state. Trinitarianism on the other hand was dangerously communal: it was the proscribed Athanasius who insisted that God became human so that humanity might become God. Trinitarianism as pure communism...
C. G. Estabrook