I NICEAL COUNCIL

The I nicean council has been selected by Roberto Amati in relation to the real history of european integration, then enlisted in the People, Dates, Places and Events category, accompanied by own fact SHEET useful to the comprehension, completed of historical MAPS AND IMAGES or with a direct linking to the related Blog contents dedicated to the entire history of european integration and the future of Europe.

The first Nicean Council is one of the most important event in whole history of european integration and will probably have influence on the future of United europe, a turning point for Christianity still effective nowadays for all european peoples and the Western part of Earth.

What was decided at the Council of Nicea in 325 A.D.? With the assumption of the role of head of Ecclesiae Christiana by the emperor Constantine I by wearing the ancient dress of roman Pontifex Maximus, he could support his sacred absolute political-militar power of Imperator with the control of the economic-religious power put in the hands of episcupus, named by himself at guiding the imperial Dioecesis. So when the Nicean Council disputed about the figure of Jesus, he established the dogma duplex Corpus Christi to mean that the Lord owned a double nature of man and god together, differently from any other human being. Moreover Constantine fixed the birthdate of Christ on the 25th december as annual occurrency fo every believer within the Roman Empire.

That had been a crucial passage for christian faith and for the history of european integration, because many events in following centuries depended on such a decision still in force nowadays! In the opinion of the exegete Eusebius, the roman emperors in their position of Earth governor deputy by God (Vicarius Dei), as sanctioned by the theocratic thesis of ortodox Christianity, could decide about the question on the nature of Jesus Christ: so when the theological dispute bewteen Arius, a theologist educated at the Antiochia christian school, and Athanasius of Alexandria, a greek episcupus in the egyptian city, focused on the nature of Jesus, Constantine I preferred the second thesis and established the double nature «in Voluntas Dei» and immediately after the Arianism became an heresy to fight.

The consequences of such a sanction had been inimmaginable! Firstly, as Arianism was spreaded among the βάρβαρος gentes, when they occupied Western Europe after 476 A.D. the Roman Church in accordance with the emperors started a terrific religious war endured decades and costed millions of deaths, concluded with the Greek-Goths war that recovered the imperial power in Italy and elevated the position and prestige of the Merovingians dinasty all over Europe: from their covenant with the Popes, it started the long age of the royal political theory useful to legitimate the christian european genealogies until the firstworldwar.

As second long period consequence, the Nicean Council established the leadership of the christian emperors on the Ecclesiae Christianitas, a position continously challenged by the same Popes until the fall of Constantinople but also disfruted when they called the frankish king Charlemagne to solve a controversy inside the Roman Church and received the imperial crown in 800 A.D..

In the end, the dogma establishe by the Nicean Council in 325 A.D. started the separation between the Roman catholic church and the Greek ortodox church, definitely consumed in 1054 A.D. with the "eastern schism" and the long contrapposition between the Popes and the Byzantine Empire culminated with the IV crusade war! The dogma defined in the Nicean Council is known as "Nicene Creed", a ritual prayer (Symbolum Niceno") elaborated by the Neoplatonism tide of opinion that elaborated a syncretic theory never demostrated but still imposed and believed nowadays to all Christians. To conlcude, the Nicean Council of 325 A.D. had been the first of the seven ecumenic council held until VII century A.D. and still accepted by the various cristian churchs.

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