The Council of Nicaea, a unique case

The Council of Nicaea, to which’a book, deserves our full attention, as it is rare that decisions taken by an assembly 1700 years ago are still binding today.

To my knowledge, it is rare, if not unique, that decisions taken by an assembly 1700 years ago are still binding today on the members of this institution. Such is the case, however, with the decisions taken at the Council of Nicaea in 325 concerning dogma, the relationship between the Father and the Son in the Trinity, the manner of fixing the date of Easter, and many other points. This little book by Claire Reggio, a lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille, plunges us into the political, religious and theological climate of the 3rd and 4th centuries, which culminated in the convening by Emperor Constantine of the first ecumenical, i.e. universal, Council of Christians.