Photograph: Boston’s Copley Library.
201: The Nicene Creed and Its Legacy
201: Lesson
Watch this video which was given October 30, 2021 to the Reconstruction class. For reference, here are the slides to this presentation. This presentation covers the conceptual and linguistic factors that led to the need to explain the Father-Son relation at the Council of Nicaea, the anti-Nicene reaction, Athanasius’ leadership advocating a pro-Nicene position, and the articulation of the Constantinopolitan revision of the Creed in 381 AD.
201: Confirm What You Learned
Watch the following video by theologian and musician Jeremy Begbie, The Trinity and Music. Seedbed, Jun 15, 2016. Begbie compares sight vs. hearing as modalities of knowing.
If you’d like to see a list of quotations from the early Christian writers about the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, with some narration for context, see Luke J. Wilson, The Trinity In The Early Church Writings. That Ancient Faith blog, Jan 4, 2022.