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Eternal Submission? Not Arianism, but still Wrong - Wyatt Graham
Jesus obeys the Father as the Mediator, not as God; the church fathers regularly distinguish Christ's divine characteristics from his human ones—obedience belongs to his humanity.
wyattgraham.com
There's little new in this article - it briefly retreads well-worn ground by way of summarizing the errors of ESS. What it does do is put forward the assertion that ESS is not Arian or semi-Arian - an assertion repeated in this article and laid out in a series of Twitter posts.
I think he is arguing this distinction based on a literal technical definition of the term Arianism. Is it fair to appropriate a term for wider usage than it originally had, based on a salient but possibly non-central aspect of the original definition? For instance, the term "Arminian" is frequently used to loosely characterize non-Calvinist work-based soteriologies apart from their actual resemblance to classical or modern Arminian systems. "Catholic" or any number of variants is often used in a similar way: if it's works-based, employs a highly structured and elaborate liturgy, or quotes the church fathers - it's Catholic. And then, of course, we have the popular appropriation of labels such as Marxism and CRT, but I dare not veer where angels fear to tread... lol.
Likewise, the pejorative use of "Arian" refers, independent of the many other components of the Arian belief system, to a tendency to denigrate the Son in relation to the Father, which was the central error that the early church felt compelled to address. That tendency is very much present in ESS, as the second link points out in almost comedic fashion, juxtaposing the refrain of "It's not Arianism" with exposition of the similarities.
So in one sense, ESS is very different from Arianism, operating with very few shared cultural and philosophical presuppositions; but at the same time it is doing essentially - from the viewpoint of the integrity of the gospel and our understanding of Scripture's teaching - the same thing. In any culture, diminishment of Christ leads in a straight line away from the gospel message. So I have a hard time getting bent out of shape over the pejorative comparison even if it is inaccurate in a very technical and scientific sense.