“God from God, Light from Light.”
You’ve said it a hundred times. Four sessions on what it cost the church to get that sentence right, and why it still holds.
Four video sessions from Dallas Theological Seminary, free, on the 1,700th anniversary of the council that wrote it.
Free. Session 1 unlocks as soon as you finish.
Someone in your congregation asks whether Jesus was created, or why it matters that the Son is “of one substance” with the Father rather than something merely similar to it.
The creed answers that. Most of us confess it weekly without knowing how.
You’ve said the creed in worship for years and never traced a line of it back to Scripture.
Someone asked what “begotten, not made” actually rules out, and you changed the subject.
You know Arius was wrong. You’re less sure you could say why in two sentences.
You want to teach this, and you don’t want to teach it badly.
Each clause traced back to the Scripture it summarizes. The creed didn’t invent anything.
Taken seriously enough to actually refute, instead of dismissed as an obvious heresy.
Why one term was worth the fight, and what the church would have lost without it.
How to preach and teach the creed without turning it into a history lecture.
Darrell Bock, Glenn Kreider, Michael Svigel, and Scott Horrell walk the creed clause by clause. They treat it as a document that was argued into existence by people who thought the answer mattered enough to fight about.
The council met in 325 and settled what the church would say about Jesus. The Nicene Creed is free from Dallas Theological Seminary. Start with Session 1.
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