Saturday, February 26, 2005

The Jewishness of the Nicene Creed

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/108/53.0.html

[Christianity Today.com] February 25, 2005--In working on the most recent issue of Christian History & Biography ("Debating Jesus' Divinity"), we once again ran into the old canard that the Nicene bishops relied more on Greek philosophical concepts than on the Bible. That is the conventional wisdom in some circles, but let's take a closer look at what those bishops did. With the help of Norwegian church historian Oscar Skarsaune and his book In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish influences on Early Christianity (IVP, 2002), we'll learn a different story.

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