Nicaea and Beyond
Implications for Contemporary Christianity
Seventeen centuries after the Council of Nicaea, its theological and ecclesial legacy continues to offer profound guidance for Christianity and the world. Nicaea and Beyond brings together leading scholars from diverse disciplines and traditions to explore how the council’s insights into Christology, ecclesiology, and doctrinal discernment remain vital in addressing the challenges of our time.
At its core, Nicaea demonstrates that unity does not require uniformity; it shows how diverse voices and perspectives can coexist within a shared commitment to the truth of Christ. The contributors examine how the Nicene vision fosters dialogue, guides ethical reflection, and cultivates a faith capable of speaking meaningfully to people across cultures, contexts, and generations. As Pope Leo XIV reminds us, this inquiry calls us “to ask ourselves who Jesus Christ is in the lives of men and women today, and who He is for each of us personally.”
Structured across historical, theological, and contemporary perspectives, this volume emphasizes Nicaea not merely as a defining historical event, but as a living tradition – a resource for engaging pluralism, fostering communal discernment, and renewing Christian witness in the twenty-first century.
Other Titles in this Series
One Bread, One Body, One Church
Essays on the Ecclesia of Christ Today in Honor of Bernard P. Prusak
Volume 81
Patristic Sources and Catholic Social Teaching
a Forgotten Dimension: A Textual, Historical, and Rhetorical Analysis of Patristic Source Citations in the Church's Social Documents
Volume 59
Interspaces between Word, Gaze and Touch
The Bible and the Visual Medium in the Middle Ages. Collected Essays on Noli me tangere, the Woman with the Haemorrhage, the Head of John the Baptist
Volume 62
Ongoing Renewal in the Church
Reflections from Patristic Tradition, Vatican II, and Pastoral Practice
Volume 82
Zwarte indianen en hun symbolen
Het magisch-religieuze systeem van de Garifuna van de Baai van Tela, Honduras
Volume 45
Normativity of the Future
Reading Biblical and Other Authorative Texts in an Eschatological Perspective
Volume 61
Embraced by the Father and the Son in the Unity of the Holy Spirit
A Study of the Trinity and the Mystical Life in the Works of Jan van Ruusbroec
Volume 65
Verdwaald tussen liefde, macht en schuld
Een hermeneutisch model voor pastorale begeleiding van dader en slachtoffer bij seksueel misbruik van kinderen
Volume 49
Mystical Anthropology: Cross-Religious Perspectives
Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Arnhem Mystical Sermons and Sri Aurobindo
Volume 66
Heurs et malheurs de la “collégialité”
Pontificats et Synodes face à la réception de Vatican II
Volume 69
More than a Memory
The Discourse of Martyrdom and the Construction of Christian Identityin the History of Christianity
Volume 51
Das Konzil und die Seminare
Die Ausbildung der Priester in der Dynamik des Zweiten Vatikanums
Volume 48
The Gospel Preached by the Deaf
Proceedings of a Conference on Deaf Liberation Theology held at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium), May 19, 2003
Volume 52
