I have got quite fed up with the way that 2025 is being described as the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. It isn’t. It is the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which produced a credal-like statement which was the basis for the work done at the Council of Constantinople in 381 to produce what we refer to today as the Nicene Creed. Does this matter? I think it does. Apart from anything else being historically accurate in relation to this issue helps us to realise that Creeds didn’t drop down ready made from heaven and the process… Read more »
Evan McWilliams
1 hour ago
I notice the most recent work referenced by Revd Clatworthy is from 1991, when I was 5 years old. I’m not convinced being force-fed a diet of ‘Jesus the ethical teacher, Jesus the man in tune with the divine’ (with a dash of Bultmannian demythologising for flavour) for the past 70+ years has been at all good for the Church and I’m personally extremely grateful to Constantine for giving the Church opportunity to clarify who Jesus really was- the divine second person of the Trinity who died ‘for us and for our salvation’.
I have got quite fed up with the way that 2025 is being described as the 1700th anniversary of the Nicene Creed. It isn’t. It is the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea which produced a credal-like statement which was the basis for the work done at the Council of Constantinople in 381 to produce what we refer to today as the Nicene Creed. Does this matter? I think it does. Apart from anything else being historically accurate in relation to this issue helps us to realise that Creeds didn’t drop down ready made from heaven and the process… Read more »
I notice the most recent work referenced by Revd Clatworthy is from 1991, when I was 5 years old. I’m not convinced being force-fed a diet of ‘Jesus the ethical teacher, Jesus the man in tune with the divine’ (with a dash of Bultmannian demythologising for flavour) for the past 70+ years has been at all good for the Church and I’m personally extremely grateful to Constantine for giving the Church opportunity to clarify who Jesus really was- the divine second person of the Trinity who died ‘for us and for our salvation’.
*I missed the 2001 reference in the footnotes. Mea culpa.