Called the Council of
Nicaea, which branded Arius a heretic for his belief that Jesus was less than God the Father and did not exist with God from time eternal.
In a previous number of this journal I argued that it was Marcellus who suggested to Constantine Ancyra as a venue for what was to be the Council of
Nicaea, and at
Nicaea itself the term homoousios to refute the appeals of Eusebius of Caesarea and others to two ousiai in God.
about the imperfection of trinitarian thought accepted and transmitted in the Church prior to
Nicaea" (236).
Even though the Council of
Nicaea, which gave us the Nicene Creed, is generally regarded as the first ecumenical (or universal) council, it was not, in fact, universal at all.
Barth maintained that the trinitarian doctrine on which his theology is based was Nicene, and that he accepted the definitions about the union of the divine and the human natures in Christ of the councils following
Nicaea (his view of the christological controversies was eminently sensible and ecumenical).
On the complex history of the years after
Nicaea, Barnes in general adheres to the dating proposed by Schwartz and Opitz, rejecting out of hand the bold reconstruction proposed by Annik Martin (p.
shows that they rejected the teachings condemned in the anathemas of
Nicaea, but in their desire to preserve monotheism and avoid charges of ditheism, under the influence of Platonism and the idea of a chain of being, they tended to view the Son as subordinate to the Father.
I said I felt there was no excuse for what must have been widely seen as their lack of humility, especially when the bishops at
Nicaea saw fit to make it a public matter.
covers all the major christological questions--historical research into the life of Jesus, the God of Jesus, the Resurrection, the pluralism of the New Testament, the symbolic character of Christology, classical soteriology, classical Christology, the meaning of
Nicaea and Chalcedon, the movement from Schleiermacher and Barth to a postmodern context, Jesus as Savior, liberation theology and Christology, Jesus and the world religions, the divinity of Jesus, and the Trinity.
The book's middle section patiently leads the reader through major pre-Nicene authors, carefully noting each significant development at its point of origin, lays out the conciliar movement from
Nicaea to Constantinople I, and concludes with a sweep of theologians from Athanasius to Aquinas.
However, the African hierarchy took the initiative of calling on Rome's assistance in 419 after Honorius, a bishop in Mauretania Caesariensis, attempted to transfer sees, counter to canon 5 of
Nicaea. This case, though its outcome remains unknown, is important, not least because scholars first heard of it through the letters of Augustine discovered by Johannes Divjak.
When there was discord in the Church about the troublesome heretic Arius, the Emperor summoned the first Ecumenical Council in
Nicaea, in 325, where the heresy was condemned and Orthodoxy confirmed.
In 325 AD the Council of
Nicaea decided to establish rules for the date of Easter, independent of the Jewish calendar, so that all Christians would celebrate at the same time.
Sava for the first Serbian archbishop and obtaining the independence of the Serbian Orthodox Church took place in
Nicaea in 1219, thanks to the love and understanding of the Byzantine Emperor Theodore I Laskaris and the then retired Constantinople patriarch Manojlo I.
Revising his 2015 doctoral dissertation at the University of Edinburgh, Bell tests the widely held view that until Constantine and the Council of
Nicaea, New Testament texts varied wildly and were copied carelessly.
