RT Article
T1 Juicio y prueba de refutación contra Eusebio de Cesarea en el Concilio de Nicea (325): Un nuevo relato sobre lo que ocurrió en el primer concilio ecuménico
JF Estudios eclesiásticos
VO 100
IS 393
SP 349
OP 389
A1 Buil Zamorano, Unai
LA Spanish
YR 2025
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1928099742
AB Through a comparative analysis of texts taken from authors such as Eustathius of Antioch or Ambrose of Milan, it will be shown that, at the heart of the first ecumenical council, there took place a trial against the excommunicated Eusebius of Caesarea, an outstanding representative of the episcopate who still adhered to the Arian doctrine, already ecclesiastically condemned before 325. In such a trial, Eusebius’ creed must be seen as a plea of defence or recantation in which he was to prove before the Nicene court of appeal that he had abjured Arianism. In the face of such a creed, however, Eusebius’ enemies exhibited some sort of rebuttal evidence against him in order to ratify the excommunication that had been hanging over him since his condemnation at the Council of Antioch, held a few months before the Council of Nicaea. It is argued that the aforementioned evidence was the letter Ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν (Opitz’ Urkunde 6), an Arian creed also endorsed by Eusebius of Caesarea himself, but as this creed was evoked in the letter of Eusebius of Nicomedia to Paulinus of Tyre. In order to be acquitted, Eusebius was forced to confess the famous homoousios (contained, for its rejection, in Ἡ πίστις ἡμῶν) and to accept other modifications in his creed, which was to be imposed on all bishops. This is how the Nicene creed was composed.
K1 Ambrosio de Milán
K1 Concilio de Antioquía
K1 Concilio de Nicea
K1 Eusebio de Cesarea
K1 Eustacio de Antioquía
K1 homoousios
DO 10.14422/ee.v100.i393.y2025.003