Died c. A.D. 394

Eunomius of Cyzicus

Worth knowing

Bishop of Cyzicus for a short time around 360, and leader of the Anomoeans, who taught that the Son is unlike the Father in essence.
He claimed that God's essence is exactly defined by the word "unbegotten", so the begotten Son cannot share it.
Basil and Gregory of Nyssa answered him: human words can name God truly without defining everything God is.

In Scholar’s Dream, Eunomius of Cyzicus has one book

ApologyEunomius of Cyzicus, ApologyTheology ProperRationality

Eunomius of Cyzicus’s quotes in the game

Every quotation from Eunomius of Cyzicus that a player meets in Scholar’s Dream, attached to the move that says it. Or see them as a plain list →

In Scholar’s Dream, books argue with each other, and each thing a book can do in a debate is called a move. Every quote below is spoken by one of those moves. Open “How it works in the game” under a quote to see the move, which books learn it, and which arguments it answers best.

“God knows no more of his own substance than we do… whatever we know about the Divine substance, that precisely is known to God… whatever he knows, the same also you will find without any difference in us.”
Eunomius, as recorded by Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History 4.7 (trans. A. C. Zenos, NPNF2 vol. 2, public domain).public domain

How it works in the game: the move "No More Than We Do"

Theology ProperArgument · power 62 · 100% accurate

In the gameCall God’s essence "Unbegotten," and you have said the whole of it — plainly, and completely knowably.

Learned byApology (Lv 1)

Words Eunomius of Cyzicus’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 who pleads his cause first seems right; until another comes and questions him.”
Proverbs 18:17 (WEB).

How it works in the game: the move Question the Premise

RationalityType shift

In the gameChallenge the foundation of an argument before it can be pressed. Lowers the foe’s Contend.

Learned byApology (Lv 1)

Who else was alive

Eunomius of Cyzicus against everyone else in the game.

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