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Nicaea (nīsē`ə), city of Bithnyia, N Asia Minor, built in the 4th cent. B.C. by Antigonus I as Antigonia and renamed Nicaea by Lysimachus for his wife. It flourished under the Romans and was the scene of the ecumenical council called in A.D. 325 by Constantine I. Another council held in 787 sanctioned the devotional use of images. The city, captured by the Turks in 1078 and by the Crusaders in 1097, passed finally to the Turks in 1330. It is sometimes called Nice. The modern Iznik, Turkey, is on the site. NicaeaIndependent principality (1204–61) of the fragmented Byzantine Empire. Founded in 1204 by Theodore I Lascaris, it was the political and cultural centre from which a restored Byzantium arose in the mid-13th century under Michael VIII Palaeologus. It extended from the Black Sea coast east of the Sangarius River southwest across western Anatolia to Miletus and the Menderes (Maeander) River. It became a centre of Greek education, especially under Theodore II Lascaris, who founded an imperial school. It declined after 1261, when Michael VIII regained the Byzantine capital of Constantinople. Nicaea an ancient city in NW Asia Minor, in Bithynia: site of the first council of Nicaea (325 ad), which composed the Nicene Creed How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Among evidence that Jews believed in the Logos, Boyarin noted the Jew Philo, whose view of the Logos, Boyarin said, "is surely on a way that leads to Nicaea and the controversies over the second person of the Trinity. The bishops at Nicaea formulated a firm and clear statement of belief that has served a great many people's need for assurance down the centuries, but there have always been others--Meister Eckhart and Jakob Boehme, George Fox and the Quakers, Blake and Rilke, to offer but a few examples--who could not lead the spiritual lives to which they had been called within the bounds of this orthodoxy. Every Christian Latinist writing before the Council of Nicaea (325) was an African. |
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