Filiation and Subordinationism

Filiation and Subordinationism, the eleventh volume in the series filiación, is dedicated to the relationship between the identity of the Son of God and the so-called Trinitarian and Christological subordinationism, frequently attributed to pre-Nicene Christian authors. The theological problem specifically addressed here can be formulated. Can pre-Nicene Christology be classified as subordinationist? Yes, no, or in what sense? What is the relationship between pre-Nicene Trinitarian theology and that developed both by Arius and in the time of the Council of Nicaea? Was Arius a conservative Christian or, on the contrary, did he break with the preceding apostolic faith? These are age-old questions worth returning to due to their extraordinary relevance: for faith, since they have a direct impact on the nature of the Mediator Jesus Christ and, therefore, on salvation; for theology, since the greater the ability to situate a theological position in the context of the traditions from which it drew and which it rejected, the better it will be understood. And all of this is intertwined with a term, that of subordinationism, not used univocally in the history of research.