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The Council of Nicaea

Mark McAbee
Christianity and World Religion
Professor Van Schooten
October 26, 2014

The Council of Nicaea 1.
The Council of Nicaea
In the summer of 325 A.D. Emperor Constantine called upon 1800 bishops from all across the Mediterranean to address the growing problems facing the young religion known as Christianity. Heretical scripture, inconsistencies in doctrinal teachings, and infighting threatened, not only Christianity, but the newly-converted emperors hold on his kingdom and those who resided in it. The council would bring in anywhere from 250 to 318 bishops from across the land and help to solidify not only the feast of salvations (what we now know as Easter) …show more content…
One of the main points addressed at the council was the heretical teaching of Arianism. Arianism is the belief that Jesus Christ, while more divine than man, is subservient to God, and not part of the holy trinity. This theological division roared into the spotlight from a sermon given by then Bishop St. Alexender. Alexender proclaimed that the father, the son, and the holy spirit are one in the same and equal to one another, or better known as homoousion. A local Pastor named Arius (no stranger to controversy himself) immediately responded by labeling Alexander's statement Sabellianism, a belief that had already been denounced at that time. The division between …show more content…
References
Council of Nicaea. (2014). In Encylopedia Britannica. Retrived from http://www.britannica.com/EBcheck- ed/topic/413817/Council-of-Nicaea
First Council of Nicaea. (2014, October 22). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 16:14 October 29, 2014, from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=First_Council_of_Nicaea
&oldid=630630129
Henry R. Percival, ed., The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church, their canons and dogmatic decrees, together with the canons of all the local synods which have received ecumenical acceptance, in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2nd Series, Vol. XIV, general editor Philip Schaff, (Edinburgh: T&T Clark; Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, repr. 1988), online, October, 23, 2014.
Pavao, P. (2009, May 1). The Council of Nicaea. Retrieved October 24, 2014, from http://www.christian- history.org/nicea.html
Van Eyck, J. (n.d.). Nicaea Creed. Retrieved October 24, 2014, from http://www.earlychurchtexts.com/

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