Understanding Nicene Trinitarianism
Theological Letters
The following piece was published in the Christian Research Journal, offering an introduction to the concept of Nicene Trinitarianism
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Prior to 1054 A.D., the Christian Church was one. Though it was divided regionally and linguistically, it had one Lord, one faith, and one baptism. During this first thousand years, the doctrines of Trinity and Christology were the center of Christian theology. Though discussions about other topics abound, such discussions, rightly understood, were extensions of the Trinitarian and Christological teachings of Christianity. Regrettably, these doctrines are some of the least understood today, and many contemporary writers both knowingly and unknowingly propagate ancient heresies.1 I want to help remedy this state of affairs by giving an overview of Trinitarianism as articulated at the councils of Nicea and Constantinople, which penned the Nicene Creed.