Crossword clues for nicene
nicene
- Word before Creed or Council
- Noted creed
- Like a noted creed
- Kind of creed
- Creed of Christianity
- Council of 325 A.D
- Christians' -- Creed
- Christians' _____ Creed
- Christianity's -- Creed
- -- Creed (statement of Christian beliefs)
- -- Creed
- ___ Creed (early Christian document)
- ___ Creed (church recital)
- ___ Creed (Christian statement of faith)
- ___ Council
- Christians' ___ Creed
- ___ Creed: A.D. 325
- ___ Councils (A.D. 325 and 787)
- ___ Creed (set of Christian beliefs)
- ___ Creed of A.D. 325
- ___ Creed (statement of religious beliefs)
- Christianity's ___ Creed
- ___ Creed or Council
- A creed
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- __ Creed (4th-century statement of faith)
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- Ancient creed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Nicene \Ni"cene\, a. [L. Nicaenus, fr. Nicaea Nice, Gr. ?.] Of or pertaining to Nice, a town of Asia Minor, or to the ecumenical council held there a. d. 325.
Nicene Creed, a summary of Christian faith, composed and adopted by the Council of Nice, against Arianism, a. d. 325, altered and confirmed by the Council of Constantinople, a. d. 381, and by subsequent councils.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 15c., in reference to Nicaea (Greek Nikaia, modern Turkish Isnik), city in Bithynia where ecclesiastical council of 325 C.E. dealt with the Arian schism and produced the Nicene Creed. A second council held there (787) considered the question of images.
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "nicene".
The opinions of Arianism might satisfy a cold and speculative mind: but the doctrine of the Nicene creed, most powerfully recommended by the merits of faith and devotion, was much better adapted to become popular and successful in a believing age.
A difference of religion is always pernicious, and often fatal, to the harmony of the prince and people: the Gothic conqueror had been educated in the profession of Arianism, and Italy was devoutly attached to the Nicene faith.
Nicene, and the Athanasian creed, without splitting metaphysical hairs with your neighbor?
Nicene council beheld with surprise and respect the rising virtues of the young deacon.
One question, which gradually arose from the Arian controversy, may, however, be noticed, as it served to produce and discriminate the three sects, who were united only by their common aversion to the Homoousion of the Nicene synod.
Here he was in Tahoe and he intended to enjoy it, get out there and run in the morning even in the dead of winter, and when the weather nicened up, do some boating and swimming.
The next day after his arrival, he summoned Damophilus to his presence, and offered that Arian prelate the hard alternative of subscribing the Nicene creed, or of instantly resigning, to the orthodox believers, the use and possession of the episcopal palace, the cathedral of St.