The Council of Nicea – Jesus or Dionysus?

Raniero Cantalamessa
09 January 2025, The Tablet

A sixteenth-century depiction of the first Council of Nicaea in AD325 by the monk and painter of frescoes Theophanes the Cretan

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The Arians believed that Jesus was a created being and not fully divine; these ideas were condemned at Nicaea in 325, but continue to resurface. The hope of the former preacher to the papal household is that this seventeenth centenary year will see a reawakening of faith in the divinity of Christ and in the trinity of God

The Arians believed that Jesus was a created being and not fully divine; these ideas were condemned at Nicaea in 325, but continue to resurface. The hope of the former preacher to the papal household is that this seventeenth centenary year will see a reawakening of faith in the divinity of Christ and in the trinity of God

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