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The Actuality of the Council of Nicaea

Ecumenical Review, 2023
AbstractThe year 2025 will mark the 1700th anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council, the Council of Nicaea, which initiated a new chapter in the history of the Christian Church. The World Council of Churches is planning to organize a World Conference on Faith and Order to celebrate this anniversary and to reflect on the transmission of the apostolic
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St Cyril of Alexandria and the Council of Nicaea

Ecumenical Review, 2023
AbstractIn commemorating the Council of Nicaea, we are not looking solely at the document that it produced, nor simply the words contained in a manuscript, but the lived tradition that produced it and continues to refine our understanding. This article will therefore explore how in the century that followed the Council of Nicaea, St Cyril of Alexandria,
Metropolitan Serapion, Macarius Refela
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The first Council of Nicaea

2006
The first Council of Nicaea was summoned in 325 CE by Constantine, within seven months of the victory that installed him as sole ruler of the empire. Eusebius of Caesarea seems none the less to disapprove of the Council of Nicaea altogether when he imputes the beginnings of it to malevolence. Few considerations may have induced Eusebius of Nicomedia to
Frances Young
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The Council of Jerusalem and the Council of Nicaea

The Council of Jerusalem and the Council of Nicaea have been perceived as synods that definitively resolved clear questions, but such is not the case. Rather, the earliest renditions of both the apostolic and the first ecumenical council offer ambiguity at every turn, from why they were called to what was decided and how it was received.
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The Role of Scripture at and Around the Council of Nicaea

Theological Studies
This article argues that the Council of Nicaea, which has borne responsibility for moving the church away from a primarily scriptural mode of speaking, is, in fact, thoroughly grounded in what we might call “the symbolic universe of Scripture.” The events and documents that preceded, were contemporaneous with, and followed Nicaea all chart their own ...
Peter Folan S J
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