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Council of Nicaea
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Review
Don’t Give Dan Brown the Final Word on the Council of Nicaea
Bryan Litfin rescues popular audiences from common myths about the origins of Trinitarian doctrine.
News
The Nicene Church Disappeared from Nicaea
The creed set the standard for orthodoxy for 1,700 years. But no one professes the faith today in the ancient Turkish town where it was written.
Why a Creed?
A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken
The Road to Nicaea
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
How Arianism Almost Won
After the Council of Nicaea, the real fight for the divinity of Christ began.
Athanasius
A short biography of the “Pugnacious Defender of Orthodoxy.”
Do You Know Whom You Worship?
Did the Nicene Creed distort the pure gospel, or did it embody and protect it?
The Final Act
It took almost 60 years for the church to make Nicaea its standard of faith.