Confusion and Controversy: AD 325–340
Confusion and Controversy: AD 325–340
Initially focuses on the council and creed of Nicaea. Sketches the course of the discussion at the council and asks if the creed was intended as a universal standard of faith. The middle sections of the chapter focuses on Nicaea’s controversial terminology. The author then asks if we can identify a common theology among the architects of the creed. The last section of the chapter narrates the progress of controversy after Nicaea up to 342.
Keywords: Arius, Athanasius, creed, Homoousios, Nicaea, Ousia
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