Series Introduction On an unassuming day in late May of the year 325 A.D., in the lakeside city of Nicaea, 318[1] bishops from all across the Roman Empire came together at the invitation of the Emperor in what would become one of the most venerated and consequential events in Christian history. Their convocation, necessitated by novel — and yet, upon closer examination, not entirely original — doctrinal contentions maintained by a popular and elderly Alexandrian presbyter, Ar

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