A Christian council in 325 CE in this city gave rise to our fundamental statement of Christian faith.
Nicea, the interim capital of the Byzantine Empire between 1204 and 1261, was in this modern-day country.
This Turkish city, now known as Istanbul, was once the imperial capital of the Roman Empire.
One of Paul’s epistles was written to the church in this city, where a third ecumenical council affirmed the theology of the original Nicene Creed from 325 CE.
Arius, the presbyter whose philosphy on Jesus’ divinity was addressed by the Nicene Creed, hailed from his city, famous for its library.
While this core concept of Christianity was not established in the Nicene Creed, it helped to more clearly define it.
This controversial clause, known as the filioque clause, defines the relationship of the Holy Spirit to the Father and the Son.
This phrase from the Nicene Creed was meant to make it clear that the Son of God is divine.
This sacrament is the only one explicitly mentioned in the Nicene Creed.
Violations of orthodox beliefs—such as Sabellius describing the Father, Son and Spirit as the same being with three “faces”—are know by this word.
According to the Book of Common Prayer, the Nicene Creed and this “ought thoroughly to be received and believed: for they may be proved by most certain warrants of Holy Scripture.”
As it is used in the Nicene Creed, this word means “universal.”
The catechism of the church found in the Book of Common Prayer notes that these the creeds used in our worship.
The Nicene Creed predates this fundamental document of our faith.
The controversy over the addition of filioque, or “...and the Son,” sparked the creation of this church in 1054?
This Roman emperor convened the first ecumenical council of Nicea to discuss the heresy of Arianism, the belief that Jesus was not divine.
More than 300 of them attended the First Council of Nicea in 325 CE.
Constantine, a convert to Christianity in 312 CE, had one overarching purpose in convening the Council of Nicea.
The Episcopal Church is in full communion with another protestant religion that also uses the Nicene Creed among its basic statements of faith.
These four words — the so-called “marks of the Church” in the Nicene Creed — describe what we believe about our church.
According to Merriam-Webster, a set of fundamental beliefs; also : a guiding principle.
This is the language in which the Nicene Creed was originally written.
Our version of the Nicene Creed substitutes this pronoun from the earliest English versions of the creed found in the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
The Apostles’ Creed was originally written in this language.
This description of the Holy Spirit was missing from the original version of the Nicene Creed in 325 CE.
What is Nicea?
What is Turkey?
What is Constantinople?
What is Ephesus?
What is Alexandria?
What is the Trinity?
What is “proceeds from the Father and the Son”?
What is “begotten, not made” or “of one being with the Father”?
What is baptism?
What is heresy?
What is the Apostles’ Creed?
What is 'catholic'?
What is the Nicene and Apostles’ creed?
What is the New Testament?
What is the Eastern Orthodox Church?
Who is Constantine?
What are bishops?
What is a unified church, and thus, a united Empire?
What is the Lutheran Church?
What are “one, holy, catholic, apostolic”?
What is a creed?
What is Greek?
What is 'I (believe)'?
What is Latin?
What is “the Lord and giver of life”?
