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	First Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The purpose of the council (also called a synod) was to resolve disagreements in the Church of Alexandria over the nature of Jesus in relationship to the Father; in particular, whether Jesus was of the same or of similar substance as God the Father.
		The Council of Nicaea was historically significant because it was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.
		The Council declared that the Father and the Son are of the same substance and are co-eternal, basing the declaration in the claim that this was a formulation of traditional Christian belief handed down from the Apostles.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea (4273 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: First Council of Nicaea
		First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 325 on the occasion of the heresy of Arius (Arianism).
		In order to expedite the assembling of the Council, the emperor placed at the disposal of the bishops the public conveyances and posts of the empire; moreover, while the Council lasted he provided abundantly for the maintenance of the members.
		Other matters dealt with by this council were the controversy as to the time of celebrating Easter and the Meletian schism.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11044a.htm (1825 words)

	What occurred at the Council of Nicea?
		The Council of Nicea affirmed the deity of Jesus Christ and established an official definition of the Trinity - the deity of The Father, Son, and Holy Spirit under one Godhead, having three co-equal and co-eternal Persona.
		Constantine, a converted Christian (debatably), called for a council meeting to be held in Nicea with the bishops of the Christian church to resolve escalating quarrels and controversy mounting to a bitter degree of disunity amongst the church leadership and congregates concerning theological issues.
		The Council of Nicea, led by Emperor Constantine, was the meeting to settle differences, to become like-minded, all to the glory of Christ.
	www.gotquestions.org /council-of-Nicea.html (761 words)

	Council of Nicaea, Nicea (325)
		The council was also important for its disciplinary decisions concerning the status and jurisdiction of the clergy in the early church and for establishing the date on which Easter is celebrated.
		The Second Council of Nicaea, the seventh ecumenical council of the Christian church, was convoked by the Byzantine empress Irene in 787 to rule on the use of saints' images and icons in religious devotion.
		The main purpose of the council was to attempt to heal the schism in the church provoked by Arianism.
	www.thenazareneway.com /council_of_nicaea_nicea_325.htm (1337 words)

	The Council Of Nicaea
		Councils held to determine important doctrinal matters were not uncommon to the early Christians.
		Councils were important in order to maintain an orthodox faith and prevent the spread of false teaching.
		The Council of Nicaea came only fourteen years after the final persecution of Christians at the hand of the Emperor Galerius.
	www.thetruthaboutdavinci.com /the-council-of-nicaea.html (570 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Second Council of Nicaea
		Seventh Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 787.
		Seven others who had plotted to make the Council miscarry in the preceding year presented themselves and declared themselves ready to profess the Faith of the Fathers, but the assembly thereupon engaged in a long discussion concerning the admission of heretics and postponed their case to another session.
		Afterwards the dogmatic decree was presented, and was signed by all the members present, by the archimandrites of the monasteries, and by some monks; the papal legates added a declaration to the effect that they were ready to receive all who had abandoned the Iconoclastic heresy.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/11045a.htm (1339 words)

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		The actual concern of the council was clearly and unambiguously the relationship between the Father and the Son.
		The council had no idea that they, by their gathering together, possessed some kind of sacramental power of defining beliefs: they sought to clarify biblical truth, not to put themselves in the forefront and make themselves a second source of authority.
		Though Nicea is seen as one of the greatest of the councils, it had to fight hard for acceptance.
	www.equip.org /free/DN206.htm (3865 words)

	Arianism Versus the Council of Nicaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This Council in Antioch was a forerunner of the latter Council in Nicaea.
		At this Council Arianism was condemned, a profession of faith resembling the Alexandrian creed was promulgated and three Bishops who refused to agree with the teaching of this Council were provisionally excommunicated until the Council of Nicaea.
		This Council directly attacked the Nicaea Council by promulgating its own creed that omitted the phrases "from the substance of the Father" and "homoousios." Some attempts were made to find a substitute word for homoousios.
	www.monksofadoration.org /arianism.html (3111 words)

	Anti-Judiasm and the Council of Nicea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		By the time that Constantine called the first general church council at Nicea in 325, anti-Semitism was endemic in the "Church." The Council of Nicea was attended by 318 bishops, none of whom were of Jewish ancestry.
		Civil legislation enforced the decrees of the Council of Nicea.
		Nicea, with its theological anti-Judaism, laid the groundwork for anti-Semitic legislation of later church councils.
	www.yashanet.com /library/antisem.htm (1166 words)

	THE COUNCIL OF NICEA
		The central issue at the Council of Nicea was the identity of Jesus Christ in relation to the Godhead.
		At the Council of Nicea the leading spokesman against Arius was Athanasius, a young archdeacon from Alexandria who later succeeded Alexander as bishop.
		In the end, persuaded by the oratory of Athanasius and heeding the bidding of the emperor, the council agreed to use the word homoousios, affirming that Jesus is of the same substance as the Father.
	www.geocities.com /robert_upci/council_of_nicea_bernard.htm (1781 words)

	First Ecumenical Council - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The council was summoned in the year 325 by the Emperor St. Constantine the Great, who desired unity in the Roman Empire and thus called the Church's bishops together to settle the raging of the heresy of Arianism, the doctrine that Jesus Christ was a created being and therefore not truly the one God.
		Earlier in the year, there had already been a council at Antioch, presided over by St. Hosius of Cordoba, which condemned Arianism and its followers, even explicitly naming Eusebius of Caesarea (who is believed to have waffled somewhat on the question).
		All the bishops at the council signed the Creed except for two, Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais, who were subsequently deposed by the Church and then exiled by the emperor, along with Arius, who also refused to accept the decrees of the council.
	www.orthodoxwiki.org /First_Ecumenical_Council (979 words)

	Council of Nicaea, Nicea
		The council opened, in the imperial summer palace at Nicaea,[11] May 20, 325, with something over three hundred bishops present, the vast bulk of them from the Greek-speaking lands where the trouble was raging, Egypt, Palestine, Syria, and Asia Minor.
		The Fathers of the Council at Nice were at one time ready to accede to the request of some of the bishops and use only scriptural expressions in their definitions.
		When the council of Chalcedon met, one of the matters which came before it for settlement was the dispute as to priority between Juvenal and Maximus Bishop of Antioch.
	mb-soft.com /believe/txc/nicaea.htm (17971 words)

	Council of Nicea
		The Council of Nicea met in 325 A.D, assembled at the command of the Roman Emperor Constantine, and met to address the heresies of a man whose name was Arius.
		The Council of Nicea did NOT actually make the original decision about which books were to be part of the Bible.
		What the councils did do was no so much decide, as AGREE with what had already been decided by the Apostles and was already in practice in the churches all over the world.
	www.exorthodoxforchrist.com /council_of_nicea.htm (915 words)

	The Council of Nicea
		The Council of Nicea, a gathering similar to the one described in Acts 15:4-22, condemned the beliefs of Arius and wrote the first version of the now famous creed proclaiming that the Son was "one in being with the Father" by use of the Greek word "homoousius."
		As evidence of this, the second major concern of the Council of Nicea was to address the hotly debated question of what the proper day was to celebrate the resurrection.
		The bishops of the Council stopped their ears on hearing the words of Arius and immediately rejected his teaching as distant and alien from the belief of the Church.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/augustine/arch/sbrandt/nicea.htm (1373 words)

	Council of Nicea, Bible Canon, Church Scandal & Censorship
		One of the rulings of Nicea was that Rome only ruled over Europe, while Alexandria had charge of Africa and Antioch had charge of Asia and the Middle East.
		Of course, that does not mean the Council of Nicea was free of scandal.
		Among the teachings being attacked centuries before the Council of Nicea was the divinity of Christ-- which the pagans could not believe possible in light of the Crucifixion's brutal suffering.
	petragrail.tripod.com /nicea.html (3519 words)

	Council of Nicea
		The theory is that councils could appropriately decide what was the original Christian faith because doctrine would be in general worldwide agreement because the apostles taught the same things in all lands.
		Because of this conflict he chose the council to be a defining and empowering body to remove those who were in disagreement.
		The council said that women in their minstel cycle could not commune with the rest of the body because the law of Moses considered them unclean.
	myweb.cableone.net /raiderjr/council_of_nicea.htm (656 words)

	Council of Nicea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Constantine was wise enough to have the council convene at Nicea, in the Roman province of Bythnia, in Asia Minor, so the people of Rome would have no knowledge of its real purpose.
		The key point is that it was only at the Council of Nicea that Constantine, purely for political reasons, forced through the new doctrine that Jesus is the only and unique Son of God.
		It had been bitterly debated until it was settled by Constantine's coercion and edict at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D. Even with that pronouncement of the Nicene Creed, the theological pendulum swung back and forth until later in the century, as different Roman church officials went in and out of power.
	www.healthypages.net /forum/tm.asp?m=278583 (3826 words)

	Council of Nicea
		The Arian Controversy and the Council of Nicea
		The church's councils under the emperor's guidance became assemblies where the new binding relationship with the Christian God, on which the safety of the empire depended, was established.
		Thus it was that the Council of Ephesus in 431 A. proclaimed Mary, the mother of Jesus, "Theotokos," i.
	essenes.net /CouncilOfNicea.html (7532 words)

	The Canon and the Creed
		The wording and the concepts in the Nicene Creed come from the New Testament—in fact, one of the most important debates at the Council of Nicea concerned whether it is proper to include a word in the Nicene Creed that does not occur in the New Testament.
		The Ecumenical Council of Constantinople convenes to settle the controversies of Apollinarianism and Montanism.
		Bishop Paulinus of Aquilea defends the filioque clause at a council in Friuli.
	www.kencollins.com /bible-c1.htm (1034 words)

	Probe Ministries - The Council of Nicea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		A common criticism by those who reject the doctrine of the Trinity is that the doctrine was not part of the early church, nor a conscious teaching of Jesus Himself, but was imposed on the church by the Emperor Constantine in the early fourth century at the Council of Nicea.
		The Council of Nicea convened on May 20, 325 A.D. The 230 church leaders were there to consider a question vital to the church: Was Jesus Christ equal to God the Father or was he something else?
		Finally, the bishops who attended the Council of Nicea were far too independent and toughened by persecution and martyrdom to give in so easily to a doctrine they didn't agree with.
	www.probe.org /content/view/790/91 (2321 words)

	The Council of Nicea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He decided to call a general council, the first of that long series of church councils that ended with the Council of Trent (1545-1563).
		For a while he believed that "the Word of the Lord, which was given at the Ecumenical Council of Nicea, remains for ever." He had good reason to believe that he had won a resounding success.
		The council came to an end on July 25 with a solemn banquet attended by the emperor.
	webpages.charter.net /dwellman/history/Nicea.html (5096 words)

	Christian Reincarnation: The Long Forgotten Doctrine
		The creed, with some changes made at a later fourth century council, is still given today in many churches.
		Some of the bishops who attended the council were uncomfortable with the council's definition of the Son and thought they might have gone too far.
		Nicea, nevertheless, marked the beginning of the end of the concepts of both preexistence, reincarnation, and salvation through union with God in Christian doctrine.
	reluctant-messenger.com /origen6.html (753 words)

	Council of Nicaea
		In terms of obtaining political protection and temporal power and influence for the church the Council of Nicea was a coup for those church leaders who were willing to compromise.
		The Council of Nicea set the pattern for the church-state compromise which continues to this day.
		Before the Council of Nicea 10 Roman Caesars in a row had persecuted the early church.
	endtimepilgrim.org /nicea.htm (3724 words)

	Part III - The Nicene Age: Lesson No. 13 - The Council of Nicea
		Hence, the Council adopted a creed which was anti-Arian, and Arius was banished.
		Nothing in addition to it is needed, and no group of men has the right to act as representatives of the church in defining its faith.
		Neither does the New Testament know anything of the general councils of the church that began to convene in the days of Constantine.
	www.bible.ca /history/eubanks/history-eubanks-13.htm (1093 words)

	The Da Vinci Code and the Council of Nicea by Bart Ehrman -- Beliefnet.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		He explains to her that Constantine's Council of Nicea was convened in order to vote on the divinity of Jesus, as a way to consolidate the emperor's own power base.
		But this was not a council that met to decide whether or not Jesus was divine, as Teabing indicates.
		On one hand, he indicates that Jesus' divinity was not accepted until Nicea in the year 325; on the other hand, he indicates that Constantine accepted into his canon of scripture only those Gospels that portrayed Jesus as divine, eliminating all the other Gospels that portrayed Jesus as human.
	www.beliefnet.com /story/168/story_16806_1.html (743 words)

	Untitled Document
		II Nicea did reaffirm the canons of local Councils which had assembled for the purposes of promulgating the canons and decrees of ecumenical Councils, but this does not apply to Carthage and Hippo because they were not assembled for that purpose.
		Furthermore, Augustine and the councils of Hippo and Carthage are in conflict with Trent on the canonical status of I Esdras.
		While the Council of Florence in the mid-fifteenth century passed a decree on the canon similar to that at Trent, the actual practice of the Church as a whole was to exclude the Apocrypha from the canon until the Council of Trent one hundred years later.
	www.christiantruth.com /sippocanon.html (6256 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Medieval Legal History
		The Quinisext Council (or Council in Trullo), 692, canons and commentary on the Council in Trullo from Volume XIV of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers.
		Seventh Ecumenical: Nicea II, 787, canons and commentary on the Second Council of Nicea from Volume XIV of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers.
		Council of Altheim: Bequests of the Clergy, 916
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/sbook-law.html (4132 words)

	Council of Nicea on the Deaconess
		It was merely a solemn dedication and blessing and was not looked upon as "an outward sign of an inward grace given." For further proof of this I must refer to Morinus, who has treated the matter most admirably.
		The council of Laodicea as early as a.d.
		Deaconesses in the Council of Nicea A.D. Women Deacons (Deaconesses) - Didascalia
	www.piney.com /DeaconessExcursus.html (838 words)

	The Council of Nicea
		He decided to call a general council, the firstof that long series of church councils that ended with the Council of Trent(1545-1563).
		In the end, Arianism was to die, and largelyas the result of Athanasius's enduring statement of the orthodox doctrine.But in spite of the anathemas, it was still a living force in the land.
		The council came to an end on July 25 witha solemn banquet attended by the emperor.
	www.apostolics.net /Nicea.html (4978 words)

	During time of Sylvester I Nicaea-1
		This council opened on 19 June in the presence of the emperor, but it is uncertain who presided over the sessions.
		Pray for us all that our decisions may remain secure through almighty God and our lord Jesus Christ in the holy Spirit, to whom is the glory for ever and ever.
		Translation taken from Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, ed.
	www.ewtn.com /library/COUNCILS/NICAEA1.HTM (2314 words)

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