Nicaea and its Legacy

• Offers a new account of the relevance of Nicene trinitarianism for modern theology
• Emphasizes the spiritual and contemplative life that accompanies thinking about the Trinity

Readership: Historical theologians, especially scholars and students of the early Church and of Christian spirituality; historians of late antiquity.

Lewis Ayres, Assistant Professor of Historical Theology, Candler School of Theology and the Graduate Division of Religion, Emory University

"The author's extensive erudition and knowledge of primary and secondary sources...make his achievement almost as remarkable as his initial ambition... This approach to pro-Nicene theology offers some illuminating insights... I maintain my stance on the opposite bank, but am glad to be able to salute a book of such good scholarship and stimulus from the other bank." - Maurice Wiles, The Journal of Theological Studies

I. Towards a Controversy
1: Points of Departure
2: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century I
3: Theological Trajectories in the Early Fourth Century II
4: Confusion and Controversy: AD 325-340
5: The Creation of `Arianism': AD 340-350
II. The Emergence of Pro-Nicene Theology
6: Shaping the Alternatives: AD 350-360
7: The Beginnings of Rapprochement
8: Basil of Caesarea and the Development of Pro-Nicene Theology
9: The East from Valens to Theodosius
10: Victory and the Struggle for Definition
III. Understanding Pro-Nicene Theology
11: On the Contours of Mystery
12: `The First and Brightest Light'
13: `Walk Towards Him Shining'
14: `On Not Three Gods': Gregory of Nyssa's Trinitarian Theology
15: The Grammar of Augustine's Trinitarian Theology
16: In Spite of Hegel, Fire and Sword
Epilogue: On Teaching the Fourth Century