Saturday, December 16, 2006
(12:56 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
An Open Letter to the History of Christian Thought Class
Most of you are doing very well on the "short identification" section. I just have one quibble with the way that most of you are answering the question on the Council of Nicea. The number of bishops present there was not 300, as so many of you think. There were in fact precisely 318 fathers at that most august and holy council. (Mnemonic device: three persons, one nature, and... um, Christ rose on the eighth day of the week.)I'm letting it slide, especially since everyone knows that it met in 325, but I'm just saying -- let's have some precision here.
