Tag Archives: Nicaea

Thinking Trinity: So what if Jesus ain’t homoousios with the Father

Posted on 25 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What would happen to the gospel if the Nicene confession of the consubstantiality of the Father and the Son were not true? Would there be a gospel? Consider the story of Jesus and the paralytic: And when he returned to Caper′na-um … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Secret of the Homoousion

Posted on 23 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

We believe in one God the Father all powerful, maker of all things both seen and unseen. And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten begotten from the Father, that is from the substance of the … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: The Radical Homoousion

Posted on 18 July 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

When in A.D. 325 the bishops of the Council of Nicaea declared (1) that Jesus Christ is begotten “from the substance of the Father” and (2) that he is “of one substance” (homoousios) with the Father, they probably did not … Continue reading →

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May an infallible dogma lose its infallibility?

Posted on 10 February 2019 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Surely the question posed in the title is absurd. How can a dogmatic statement deemed essential to the integrity of the Christian faith—that both guarantees and is guaranteed by the religion—ever be apprehended by Christians as dispensable, perhaps even meaningless? … Continue reading →

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Nicene Metaphysics: Apprehending the Transcendence

Posted on 14 August 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

It’s not clear in my own mind precisely when I began to make the connection between creatio ex nihilo and the metaphysical revolution initiated by the first two ecumenical councils and the theologians we now identify as the Pro-Nicene Fathers (St … Continue reading →

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The Curious Trinity of Dale Tuggy

Posted on 29 July 2017 by Fr Aidan Kimel

Analytic philosopher Dale Tuggy has written a curious (but affordable!) book: What is the Trinity? Curious … because if, on the basis of the title, one is hoping to learn why the Church of Jesus Christ formulated the doctrine of the … Continue reading →

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Divine Mercy as ‘Immanent Transcendence’ According to Nicaean Metaphysics

Posted on 9 November 2016 by Fr Aidan Kimel

by Robert F. Fortuin This topic is very exciting to me for several reasons. On a very personal and existential level, it is my firm conviction that God’s mercy is precisely the very reason for, and assurance of, our presence … Continue reading →

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Thinking Trinity: No God Behind the Back of Jesus

Posted on 6 March 2014 by Fr Aidan Kimel

What if the Nicene assertion of Christ’s Jesus’ consubstantial unity with the Father is not true? In the previous article I focused on the story of the paralytic and Christ’s word of forgiveness and argued that if Christ is not … Continue reading →

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