ABSTRACT
In the 350s, in the middle of the Trinitarian conflict, there arose a new orientation, which in modern research is called Homoian. The Homoians dominated the theological discussion in the Roman Empire in the 360s and 370s, and later on in the kingdoms of the Visigoths, the Ostrogoths, the Burgundians, the Suebi and the Vandals. The approach of the Homoians was surely quite attractive, and it explains adequately the adoption of homoian Christianity by the Goths. Synods in Gaul, initiated by Hilary of Poitiers, were the beginning of a new controversy about the homoian theology and its representatives in the Latin West. In fact, the homoian declaration agreed upon in Constantinople in 360 says about the Son: who is like the Father, who begot him, as is written in the scriptures. Rather, the Holy Spirit illuminates those things created by God, the Father, through Christ.
