The Confession of the Council of Nicaea: History and Theology (Part II)

The year 2025 marks the 1,700th anniver­sary of the First
Ecu­meni­cal Coun­cil of Nicaea. To com­mem­o­rate the occa-
sion, the Pon­tif­i­cal Gre­go­ri­an Uni­ver­si­ty and the Uni­ver­si­ty
of Mün­ster are organ­is­ing an inter­na­tion­al con­fer­ence
enti­tled “The Con­fes­sion of the Coun­cil of Nicaea: His­to­ry
and The­ol­o­gy”.
The aim of the con­fer­ence is to fos­ter dia­logue between his-
tor­i­cal research on the Coun­cil and sys­tem­at­ic-the­o­log­i­­cal
ques­tions con­cern­ing the cur­rent sig­nif­i­cance of the Nicene
Creed. Each of the two organ­is­ing insti­tu­tions rep­re­sents
this aim in its own way: each has a long tra­di­tion of study-
ing the­ol­o­gy and church his­to­ry, while being con­cerned at
the same time with con­tem­po­rary issues of the Chris­t­ian
faith in dif­fer­ent region­al, lin­guis­tic and cul­tur­al con­texts.
The con­fer­ence is there­fore divid­ed into two parts. The
first took place from 27 Feb­ru­ary to 1 March 2025 in Rome;
the sec­ond will take place from 15 to 17 Octo­ber 2025
in Mün­ster.