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The First Council of Nicaea issued a body of church disciplinary rules commonly referred to as the Canons of Nicaea. Multiple modern treatments argue that the Council of Nicaea did not determine the contents of the biblical canon.
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- Documented · Collections of Arabic canons have been attributed to the Council of Nicaea in addition to the commonly cited Greek set.
- Documented · Multiple modern treatments argue that the Council of Nicaea did not determine the contents of the biblical canon.
- Documented · The Council of Nicaea is associated with addressing the Arian controversy and with a creed that used the term homoousios.
- Contested · A legendary account holds that at Nicaea the Lord caused canonical books to remain on a table while apocryphal or spurious books fell beneath it.
- Contested · A miracle story circulated in which canonical books remained on a table at Nicaea while apocryphal or spurious books fell underneath.
- Contested · A widely repeated narrative claims that the Council of Nicaea created or finalized the canon of Scripture.
- Contested · A widespread narrative claims that the biblical canon was decided or formed at the Council of Nicaea.
- Contested · Multiple historical and seminary treatments state that the Council of Nicaea did not determine the biblical canon.
- Contested · Some popular historical summaries present formation of the biblical canon as an important outcome of the Council of Nicaea.
- Contested · The Greek canons associated with Nicaea are frequently presented as a set of twenty canons, though some accounts note that the exact number is disputed.
Constantine I2
- Documented · Constantine I is described as having called the council after previously supporting legal toleration of Christianity in the empire.
- Documented · The First Council of Nicaea was an assembly of Christian bishops held in the city of Nicaea in the Roman Province of Bithynia under the direction of Constantine I.
First Council of Nicaea1
- Documented · The First Council of Nicaea issued a body of church disciplinary rules commonly referred to as the Canons of Nicaea.
Pappus1
- Documented · The table-miracle story about sorting canonical and non-canonical books is linked in secondary discussion to material from the Synodicon Vetus as edited by Pappus and later circulated in citation chains that reached Voltaire.
Voltaire1
- Contested · The table-miracle anecdote is linked in later transmission to material associated with the Synodicon Vetus and was repeated by later writers including Voltaire.
Other4
- Documented · Contemporary and later accounts associate the council with roughly three hundred bishops meeting to address disputes disturbing the church and the empire.
- Documented · Published translations and summaries treat the Nicaean canons primarily as rules on ordination, church order, and discipline rather than as a list of biblical books.
- Documented · Surviving texts associated with the council include sets of canons preserved in Greek and early Latin versions, distinct from any list of biblical books.
- Documented · The council is documented as producing disciplinary canons and as addressing major theological controversy, including the Arian dispute and formulation of a creed.