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Issue 85 : The Council of Nicaea: Debating Jesus’ Divinity

Originally published in 2005

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Debating Jesus' Divinity: Did You Know?

Interresting and Unusual Facts about the Council of Nicaea

Steven Gertz, D. H. Williams, and John Anthony McGuckin
How Arianism Almost Won

After the Council of Nicaea, the real fight for the divinity of Christ began.

Christopher A. Hall
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

John Anthony Mcguckin
Changes and Challenges

David Neff
Dogs, Missions, and Holy Relics

Editors
The Dead Sea Scrolls Unrolled

Joseph L. Trafton
New wine, new wineskins

Jennifer Woodruff Tait
Why a Creed?

A Conversation with Robert Louis Wilken

Robert L. Wilken
Which Creed is Which?
Who Came to the Council of Nicaea?

D. H. Williams
Taking Care of (Church) Business

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

Paul L. Maier
Do You Know Whom You Worship?

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

D. H. Williams
Debating Jesus' Divinity: Christian History Timeline

The Trials and Triumphs of Nicaea
Saints and Heretics

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

Elesha Coffman
Athanasius

A short biography of the "Pugnacious Defender of Orthodoxy."

Patrick Henry Reardon
A Marriage Made in Byzantium

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

Bradley Nassif
The Final Act

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

Lewis Ayres
The Council of Nicaea and its bitter aftermath

Steven Gertz and Jennifer Trafton
Holiness of heart, life, and pen

Charles Wesley and Charles H. Sheldon

Chris Armstrong
How Armenia "Invented" Christendom

Steven Gertz
Surprised by Orthodoxy

Thomas C. Oden

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