Introduction: The Council of Nicaea (1700 Years Later)
Winter 2024
The Council of Nicaea (1,700 Years Later)
A Conversation on the Council of Nicaea
Khaled Anatolios"The development of trinitarian doctrine is nothing other than the history of Christians’ reflection on the experience of being integrated by grace into the eternal life of the Holy Trinity."
Athanasius, Nicaea, and the “Arian Controversy”
David M. Gwynn“Of the Same Essence as the Father”: Did the Council of Nicaea Cut Off Christianity’s Jewish Roots?
Jan-Heiner Tück"The Jewish roots of the Christian faith may be concealed by the concept of homoousia, but they are not forgotten; on the contrary, they are brought to bear in a particular way."
The Homooúsios tô Patrí and the Discernment of Spirits: The Criteriological Role of the Nicene Creed
Karl-Heinz Menke"Only if Jesus’ ‘Abba’ relationship, lived in finite time and space, is personally identical with the intratrinitarian relationship of the eternal Son (Logos) to the eternal Father, is Jesus—as true man—the revelation of the trinitarian God."
Nicaea: Hellenizing the Faith or Utilizing Philosophy?
Giulio Maspero"If the Son and the Spirit were not one with the Father, the martyrs’ choice to trade years of their earthly life for the fullness of life conferred by the faith would have been absurd."
As Ointment Emptied Out: Origen and Intratrinitarian Kenosis
Samuel Korb"[T]he kenosis itself is wrapped within the Son’s identity as image of the Father’s substance."
Possession in Detachment
Siobhan Maloney Latar Apolonio Latar , III."It is precisely in his courageous, fruitful will not to grasp, his refusal to claim for his own what is not given, that the deepest truth, beauty, and goodness of man’s nature is displayed most radiantly."
Apocalyptic Readings of Moby-Dick: What Ishmael Returns to Tell Us
Robert Alexander"Ahab’s tragedy is the tragedy of modern man in a condition of constant spiritual disintegration: he has the sensibilities of a religious man attempting to deal with religious problems but with the mindset of a modern man who has been encouraged either to deny God or to see him as evil."
The Scope and Limits of Ecclesiastical Ghostwriting
Michael V. Dougherty"An overreliance on ghostwriters—like an overreliance on a legal team or public relations department—arguably limits the faithful in hearing the true voice of their shepherd."