17th Annual Hellenic Memorial Lecture for Julian Chrysostomides

Revd Richard Price
Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity, Heythrop College, University of London

The Council of Nicaea of AD 325, whose seventeenth centenary we are celebrating this year is strangely familiar and yet unfamiliar. The famous creed it produced is recited week after week in innumerable Christian churches. Yet both its history and its theology are only dimly appreciated by most Christians, for whom the council inaugurated what became a union of church and state unimaginable today, while the conciliar definition of the full divinity of Jesus Christ receives today from most Christians only a formal recognition, while devotion is centred on Christ’s humanity. This centenary should be a stimulus to a reawakening of historical memory and a fuller knowledge of the very heart of the Christian faith.

Admission is free, but booking is essential.

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