{"id":22091,"date":"2025-07-21T17:19:33","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T21:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/?p=22091"},"modified":"2025-07-21T18:02:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T22:02:15","slug":"4-33-bryan-litfin-reading-from-nicaea-to-the-nicene-creed-sixty-years-of-confusion-and-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/podcasts\/4-33-bryan-litfin-reading-from-nicaea-to-the-nicene-creed-sixty-years-of-confusion-and-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"4.33 Bryan Litfin \u2022 Reading \u2022 &#8220;From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the story of how the heresy of Arianism almost become the official doctrine of the early church, and the story of a few brave men who stood in the way. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":1592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"4.33 Bryan Litfin \u2022 Reading \u2022 \"From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy\"","_seopress_titles_desc":"This is the story of how the heresy of Arianism almost become the official doctrine of the early church, and the story of a few brave men who stood in the way.","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1973,50,31,38],"tags":[2195,1670,217,823,1613,1592,829,709,706,925,102,246,1669,1510,122,205],"scripture-reference":[],"post_folder":[],"ppma_author":[2196],"class_list":["post-22091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-july-2025","category-longform-reading","category-podcasts","category-theme","tag-arianism","tag-arius","tag-biblical-theology","tag-christ","tag-confessions","tag-creeds","tag-discipleship","tag-doctrine","tag-doctrine-of-god","tag-evangelicals","tag-gospel","tag-nicea","tag-nicene-creed","tag-sola-scriptura","tag-theology","tag-trinity"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/COA-podcast-social-scaled.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-01-13 11:30:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"authors":[{"term_id":2196,"user_id":39,"is_guest":0,"slug":"bryan-litfin","display_name":"Bryan Litfin","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bryan-Litfin-scaled.jpeg","url2x":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Bryan-Litfin-scaled.jpeg"},"author_category":"1","job_title":"","church_city_state":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","church_site":"","user_url":"","description":"<strong>Bryan M. Litfin<\/strong>\u00a0(Ph.D, University of Virginia) is Professor of Bible and Theology at Liberty University. This article is adapted from his new book,\u00a0<em>The Story of the Trinity: Controversy, Crisis, and the Creation of the Nicene Creed<\/em>\u00a0(Baker, 2025).\u00a0Bryan is married to Carolyn, and they have two adult children. Bryan and Carolyn worship at Rivermont Evangelical Presbyterian Church.\u00a0He may be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bryanlitfin.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/www.bryanlitfin.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1753148107852000&amp;usg=AOvVaw052bTFKxtVD8qq-lbobcID\">www.bryanlitfin.com<\/a>."}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22091"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22096,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22091\/revisions\/22096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"scripture-reference","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/scripture-reference?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=22091"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=22091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}