Lecture: Marking 1700 years of the Council of Nicaea

The Council of Nicaea (325)  was the first ecumenical council in the history of the Christian Church. The meeting of Bishops and Church leaders at the direction of Emperor Constantine the Great resulted in the affirmation of the Holy Trinity and the formation of what would be known as the Nicaean Creed, which has been affirmed  by Christians worldwide for 1700 years.

On 26 July Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel, Lecturer in Divinity in the University of St Andrews and regular contributor to BBC Radio 4,  will deliver a talk entitle Heresy! The Nicene Creed and the Invention of Orthodoxy  on the legacy of this pivotal event in the history of the Christian Church. Contributions and responses from Dr Janite Rutherford and Dr Alexander O’Hara will follow the key lecture, concluding with a reception of tea, coffee, and refreshments.

This event will be held in The Deanery, Kevin Street. It is free of charge to attend, but please RSVP through the link above.

Dr Dafydd Mills Daniel is Lecturer in Divinity, School of Divinity, University of St Andrews. Before joining St Andrews in September 2022, Dafydd was McDonald Lecturer in Christian Ethics at the University of Oxford, where he was also Director of Applied Theology, Wycliffe Hall and Director of Studies in Theology, Jesus College. Dafydd has contributed regularly to BBC Radio 4’s Free Thinking, on a range of topics, including: Adam Smith; Richard Price; National Debt; St Teresa of Avila; John Knox; John Henry Newman; George Eliot; radical deism; individualism and community; nature writing (where Dafydd’s contribution, on the 18th century ‘parson-naturalist’, Gilbert White, was featured as choice in the Radio Times).