Extract from Ante-Nicene Trinitarianism – To read the full text, click “Download” below.
DID THE CHURCH GET THE TRINITY FROM PAGANISM AT NICEA IN A.D. 325?
It is sometimes suggested by Antitrinitarians that the first Christian Roman Emperor Constantine (r. A.D. 313f), after his “conversion” to Christianity imported his own former tritheistic pagan views into the Church by ordering her in A.D. 325 to incorporate those views into her Nicene Creed. It is also further suggested that this then further syncretized an allegedly Pre-Nicene ecclesiastical unitarianism, with Pre-Nicene pagan tritheism — thereby producing a Post-Nicene ecclesiastical trinitarianism.
