"historically the arian position, while dominant is arabia--is an anomaly in the west."
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I'm not certain of your meaning, ckilmer. Can you re-phrase? Thank you.
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sorry for the long explanation. The better sentence than the one I posted above would require the preposition "in" rather than the verb "is"--so it would read--
"historically the arian position, while dominant in arabia--is an anomaly in the west."
Sorry too for leaving out the explanation of Arianism. The arian position or Arianism is named after Arius of Alexandria who in the early 300's AD, --said that Jesus was fully Man but Not fully God. This caused a dispute in the church which was resolved at the council of Nicea under Constantine's auspices --in favor of the trinitarians--who held that Jesus is fully God as well as fully Man. However, there was still another 100+ years or so of wars in the late roman empire to be fought in which this theological debate played a part. Civil wars on this scale in which theology placed such a central role would not come again to Europe until the latter half of the 1500's and then would run for the next 100 years or so. The climactic catholic/protestant wars were during the 30 years wars of 1619-1649. However, nothing was really settled. Everyone remained pissed and bitter. And the animosity between catholics and protestants did not really subside until both were eclipsed and diminished by secularists in the 20th century.
Finally, people who believe in arianism are, necessarily, monists. --since jesus is out of the godhead-- as well as the holy spirit.