{"id":22188,"date":"2025-07-30T11:45:59","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:45:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/?p=22188"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:14:29","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:14:29","slug":"4-34-bryan-litfin-david-schrock-stephen-wellum-interview-from-nicaea-to-the-nicene-creed-sixty-years-of-confusion-and-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/podcasts\/interview\/4-34-bryan-litfin-david-schrock-stephen-wellum-interview-from-nicaea-to-the-nicene-creed-sixty-years-of-confusion-and-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"4.34 Bryan Litfin, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum \u2022 Interview \u2022 &#8220;From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Bryan Litfin on his Christ Over All essay: &#8220;From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy&#8221;<\/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":"4.34 Bryan Litfin, David Schrock, Stephen Wellum \u2022 Interview \u2022 \"From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy\"","_seopress_titles_desc":"Listen in as David Schrock and Stephen Wellum interview Bryan Litfin on his Christ Over All essay: \"From Nicaea to the \u201cNicene Creed\u201d: Sixty Years of Confusion and Controversy\"","_seopress_robots_index":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11,1973,31,38],"tags":[2195,1670,217,823,1613,1592,829,709,925,102,246,1669,1510,122,205],"scripture-reference":[],"post_folder":[],"ppma_author":[2196,24,22],"class_list":["post-22188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview","category-july-2025","category-podcasts","category-theme","tag-arianism","tag-arius","tag-biblical-theology","tag-christ","tag-confessions","tag-creeds","tag-discipleship","tag-doctrine","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 11:30:49","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>."},{"term_id":24,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"david-schrock","display_name":"David Schrock","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david-schrock.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/david-schrock.jpg"},"author_category":"","job_title":"","church_city_state":"","last_name":"Schrock","first_name":"David","church_site":"","user_url":"https:\/\/davidschrock.com\/","description":"<b>David Schrock<\/b> is the pastor for preaching and theology at Occoquan Bible Church in Woodbridge, Virginia. David is a two-time graduate of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He is a founding faculty member and professor of theology at Indianapolis Theology Seminary. And he is the author of <I>Royal Priesthood and Glory of God<\/I> along with many journal articles and online essays."},{"term_id":22,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"stephen-wellum","display_name":"Stephen Wellum","avatar_url":{"url":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stephen-wellum.jpg","url2x":"https:\/\/christoverall.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stephen-wellum.jpg"},"author_category":"","job_title":"","church_city_state":"","last_name":"Wellum","first_name":"Stephen","church_site":"","user_url":"https:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/academics\/faculty\/stephen-j-wellum\/","description":"<b>Stephen Wellum<\/b> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbts.edu\/academics\/faculty\/stephen-j-wellum\/\">professor of Christian theology<\/a> at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He received his MDiv and PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author of numerous essays, articles, and books. He is also the co-author with Peter Gentry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/kingdom-through-covenant-case-2\/\"><I>Kingdom through Covenant<\/i><\/a>, 2nd edition (Crossway, 2012, 2018) and the author of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crossway.org\/books\/god-the-son-incarnate-case\/\"><I>God the Son Incarnate: The Doctrine of the Person of Christ<\/i><\/a> (Crossway, 2016) and <a href=\"https:\/\/bhacademic.bhpublishinggroup.com\/product\/systematic-theology-2\/#flipbook-sampler\/\"><I>Systematic Theology, Volume 1: From Canon to Concept<\/i><\/a> (B&amp;H Academic, 2024). 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