Issue 85 Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus’ Divinity

Interresting and Unusual Facts about the Council of Nicaea

After Nicaea, the real fight began.

The Council of Nicaea Strove to Answer one of the Central Questions of the Christian Faith, but it also Proved that Theology is Never a Tidy Buisiness.

Bach knew how to make theology sing.

Miscellaneous events of note related to church history.

The scroll was a thousand years older than any other Hebrew manuscript of the Old Testament.

Wine and unleavened bread.

A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken.

Sorting out the mis-named creeds.

The council was overwhelmingly eastern.

More was decided at the Council of Nicaea than the nature of Christ.

Did the Nicene Creed distort the pure gospel, or did it embody and protect it?

The Trials and Triumphs of Nicaea.

Key players in a high-stakes game of politics and theology.

Few churchmen have been so entirely embroiled in doctrinal and ecclesiastical disputes as Athanasius.

When it came to determining doctrine, there were limits to an emperor’s power.

It took almost 60 years for the church to make Nicaea its standard of faith.

Selective bibliography.

Charles Wesley and Charles H. Sheldon.

The people of Armenia, or the part they have played in global Christianity.