The Arian Crisis, c.330-381 AD

The First Council of Nicaea (325) proclaimed the doctrine that Jesus was one with the Father, and condemned the idea that he was a mere creature. Yet with a few years, that belief--that Christ could not be truly God and man--gained the acceptance of nearly every bishop in the Christian world, and the support of numerous Roman emperors. How did a belief condemned by an ecumenical council dominate the Church's hierarchy for so long, and how did it fail to successfully perpetuate itself in the end? The second episode of Controversies in Church History for the 2019-2020 season investigates the history of how Nicene orthodoxy eventually overcame the opposition of the various Arian theologies.

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10/29/19 • 60 min