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4.33 Bryan Litfin • Reading • "From Nicaea to the “Nicene Creed”: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy"
Season 4
Episode 33
Published 11 months, 1 week ago
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ABOUT THE EPISODE
This is the story of how the heresy of Arianism almost become the official doctrine of the early church, and the story of a few brave men who stood in the way.
Resources to Click
- “From Nicaea to the “Nicene Creed”: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy” – Bryan Litfin
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- Rufinus of Aquileia: Historia Ecclesiastical, Book 10, chs. 1-6 (Excerpt on the First Council of Nicaea)
- Letter of Eusebius of Nicomedia and Theognis of Nicaea to a Council – Fourth Century Christianity
- The Death of Arius (Post Nicene Fathers Excerpt) – Philip Schaff
- The Dialogue Against the Luciferians – Jerome; Philip Schaff
- The Nicene Creed – Book of Common Prayer
- Theme of the Month: The Nicene Creed: 1700 Years of Homoousios
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Books to Read
- The Story of the Trinity: Controversy, Crisis, and the Creation of the Nicene Creed – Bryan Litfin
- The Church History of Rufinus of Aquileia: books 10 and 11 – Rufinus of Aquilea trans. Philip R. Amidon
- The Theodosian Code and Novels and the Sirmondian Constitutions – Clyde Pharr