Active c. A.D. 355 – 381

The Macedonians

Worth knowing

A party named after Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople. Their opponents called them the Pneumatomachi, the Spirit-fighters.
Many of them accepted Nicaea's teaching about the Son, or something close to it, but denied that the Holy Spirit is God.
The Council of Constantinople answered them in 381 by adding to the creed that the Spirit is "the Lord and giver of life", worshipped and glorified together with the Father and the Son.

In Scholar’s Dream, the Macedonians has one book

Against the Spirit’s DeityA Pneumatomachian tract, unattributed — the Macedonian party, no longer extantTheology Proper

Words The Macedonians’s books borrow from others

Moves these books can learn whose quotation comes from somebody else. The citation on each one names who actually said it.

“He gave him no answer, not even one word, so that the governor marveled greatly.”
Matthew 27:14 (WEB); cf. Isaiah 53:7.

How it works in the game: the move Silence

ChristologyType shift

In the gameSay nothing. Convinces no one — but the next argument lands harder. Raises the user’s Contend, after the pattern of Christ’s silence before his accusers.

Learned byAgainst the Spirit’s Deity (Lv 1)

Who else was alive

The Macedonians against everyone else in the game.

A.D. 1A.D. 50A.D. 100A.D. 150A.D. 200A.D. 250A.D. 300A.D. 350A.D. 400A.D. 450

Matthew Paul John Mark Pliny the Elder Clement of Rome Ignatius An early Christian community Polycarp Claudius Ptolemy Hermas Justin Martyr Aristides Quadratus Melito Unknown authors writing under borrowed names Irenaeus The author of the Epistle to Diognetus Athenagoras Clement of Alexandria Tertullian Marcus Minucius Felix Origen Cyprian Plotinus Lactantius Eusebius Athanasius Eustathius of Sebaste Apollinaris of Laodicea Cyril of Jerusalem Epiphanius of Salamis Gregory of Nazianzus Basil of Caesarea Eunomius of Cyzicus Gregory of Nyssa Ambrose of Milan Jovinian Augustine The Macedonians Helvidius

Solid bar = firm dates · faded = approximate61 authors sit outside this window