Council of Nicaea

Question 1

When did the Council of Nicaea take place?

Answer 1

325

Question 2

How many bishops attended?

Answer 2

About 300

Question 3

Where did they come from?

Answer 3

Across the Empire

Question 4

Why did they meet?

Answer 4

To discuss theological and administrative issues

Question 5

What did it result in?

Answer 5

The Nicene Creed

Question 6

What is the Nicene Creed used as?

Answer 6

A statement of faith

Question 7

Who documented the results of the council?

Answer 7

Church historians

Question 8

Who refers to the council in his letters?

Answer 8

Athanasius

Question 9

Who is the main defender of the Nicene Orthodoxy?

Answer 9

Athanasius

Question 10

What did Constantine hope Christianity would become?

Answer 10

A uniting force in the empire

Question 11

What was Constantine distressed to hear?

Answer 11

Of the dispute between the Christians and the Arians

Question 12

What were the Arians arguing?

Answer 12

That Jesus was greater than man but inferior to God

Question 13

Who called for the council?

Answer 13

Constantine

Question 14

What did they gather after?

Answer 14

After years of persecution

Question 15

Who tried to help them?

Answer 15

The Emperor

Question 16

What was still very recent?

Answer 16

The persecutions

Question 17

What did this mean?

Answer 17

People were reluctant to get involved with issues surrounding their faith

Question 18

What did many bishops claim to still have due to the persecution?

Answer 18

Scars, metaphorically speaking

Question 19

What did the councils condemn?

Answer 19

The teachings of Arius

Question 20

What did the council adopt?

Answer 20

A creed outlining the correct belief about the sons relationship with the father

Question 21

What was this meeting considered to be?

Answer 21

The first ecumenical council of the church

Question 22

What was the council’s main ambition to do?

Answer 22

Question the exact relationship between the father and the son

Question 23

What doctrines did Arius formulate?

Answer 23

• The Logos and the Father were not of the same essence
• the son was a created being
• there was a time when He did not exist

Question 24

What was the famous part about the Nicene Creed?

Answer 24

The statement of faith

Question 25

What did the council’s decision on Jesus become?

Answer 25

He was divine in the same sense as the God the father, not in the sense of being a created divine being

Question 26

What substance was he said to be?

Answer 26

One substance with the Father

Question 27

What word describes this substance?

Answer 27

Homousion

Question 28

What did they condemn?

Answer 28

Views that were heretical

Question 29

How many canons did they introduce?

Answer 29

20 canons after the conclusion of the council

Question 30

What question were they aiming to address?

Answer 30

Was Jesus divine and how?

Question 31

What were the main issues for the people when they saw the arguments in the church?

Answer 31

• Riots in the streets
• pamphlet wars
• graffiti

Question 32

What did historians call the issue?

Answer 32

Arian Controversy

Question 33

What was the church the first of?

Answer 33

Worldwide gathering of the church

Question 34

What age was the church when Constantine took over?

Answer 34

It was a young church

Question 35

What was the Christian doctrine regarded as?

Answer 35

Muddled and inconsistent

Question 36

Where was this inconsistency prominent?

Answer 36

When it came to the central question of Jesus’ relationship to God

Question 37

What did the Nicene Creed form?

Answer 37

The basis for Christian ideology

Question 38

What date was decided?

Answer 38

Easter, one of the holiest of Christian celebrations

Question 39

What was NOT decided?

Answer 39

Which verses or gospels would be included in the Bible