Nicaea And Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-century Trinitarian Theology, Volume 13

Lewis Ayres

OXFORD University Press, 2006 - Religion - 475 pages

Lewis Ayres offers a new account of the most important century in the development of Christian belief after Christ. He shows how the doctrine of the Trinity was developed, and in particular argues that a conception of God's mysteriousness and spiritual progress towards understanding is central to that doctrine. He also proposes that modern theologies of the Trinity fail to appreciate the depth and power of Nicene trinitarianism.

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Review: Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology

User Review  - Jacob Aitken - Goodreads

For the most part Ayres gives us a magisterial survey and exposition of the Nicene era. His goal is to identify and commend what he terms a “pro-Nicene” theology. His second goal is to combat a ...

Review: Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-Century Trinitarian Theology

User Review  - G Walker - Goodreads

Good... helpful volume... suffers from what I call "Leithart footnoting" (that is referencing an entire book, not a page number or even a chapter or section)... which is to say, due to the author's ...

About the author

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

Bibliographic information

• Title: Nicaea And Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth-century Trinitarian Theology, Volume 13; Nicaea and its legacy: an approach to fourth-century trinitarian theology, Lewis Ayres; Oxford scholarship online
• Author: Lewis Ayres
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: OXFORD University Press, 2006
• ISBN: 0198755058, 9780198755050
• Length: 475 pages
• Subjects: Religion / Christian Theology / History; Religion / Christianity / Catechisms; Religion / Christianity / History; Religion / History