Welcome to another episode of Apostolic Life in the 21st Century. I'm looking forward to

today's episode because we're going to talk about something that I have been looking forward to

for a long time.

I'm a bit of a history buff, history nerd you might say.

So when I realized that May of 2025

would mark the 1700th anniversary

of a very important event in church history,

I saved this question back just for this particular month.

1700 years ago, the Emperor Constantine called a church meeting

in a little town in modern Turkey called Nicaea.

Of course, the country of Turkey didn't exist at that time,

but these church leaders met in nicaia

and out of that meeting they came up with what is often known as the count are the the the

nicaan creed what was so important about the council of nicaea that we're still talking about it

1700 years later what happened there

in Nicaa 1700 years ago let me give you the short answer and then an explanation but the

council of Nicaea AD 325 in the little town as you said of Nicaea about 20 miles from the

imperial capital um and today it's

Isnik, Turkey. In retrospect, it is seen as the most significant step in formulating the

doctrine of the Trinity. Now, at the time, it wasn't so clear. So I talk about this. If you're

interested, I wrote a little book called

the Trinitarian Controversy in the 4th century. So let me give you the background and then show you why

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