Nicene Christianity: The Council Of Nicaea, Constantinople, And Chalcedon

Rakia Bible 111(04)
Professor James Allen 09/19/17 Nicene Christianity
A creed is an announcement or confession of confidence and conviction. The Ecumenical councils utilized creed, or ideology, as various approaches to express their convictions of Christianity, including how they saw Jesus Christ. The Council of Nicaea, Constantinople, and Chalcedon all had diverse perspectives. There were four noteworthy statements of faith that showed the distinctive perspectives of Jesus and God: The Nicene Creed, the apostles’ creed,

This resulted in the Creed of Nicea, which opposes Arianism in several statements: “from the substance of the Father”, and “begotten, not made” (talking about Jesus) which oppose Arius’s statements that Jesus was made (from nothing); and “true God from true God” and “homoousios” (of one substance), contrasting the concept that only the Father, not Jesus, was really God. As a result, Arius was exiled from the church, and the global church was split in two: the Nicene Party, predominantly Western, and the Origenists, predominantly Eastern, the former emphasizing clearly Jesus’s deity, but less God’s Threeness, and the latter emphasizing clearly God’s Threeness, but less Jesus’s deity. These different emphasis, although equally important, brought conflict in the church for almost 50

They believed that Jesus languished over our transgressions, descended into hell, and ascended on the third day. This is like the Apostles' Creed.The only distinction is that the Nicene Creed infers the second great awakening, and the Apostles' creed expresses that Jesus and God are two unique wholes. While The apostles' creed was framed off the most punctual declarations of Jesus and was stemmed from the Trinitarian Baptism Formula. This creed expressed that God, Jesus, and the Holy Ghost as 3 distinct elements.That Jesus was made by the Holy spirit, birthed by mary, but was considered the son of the Almighty (God the Father). The symbol of Chalcedon used their beliefs in the Nicene Creed as a base for their symbol but added their own perspectives of it. This creed stated that Jesus was God in a human form and walked among us. They believed Jesus and God was One. Jesus was acknowledge in his two natures and Mary was known as the Mother of God. In conclusion, The Athanasian creed was made in Alexandria by the "Father of Orthodoxy", Athanasius. This belief expressed that God shaped himself as Jesus, birthed himself through the virgin mary, descended into hell and ascended on the third day to rise and convey