Saturday, March 20, 2004
A brief history of doctrine.
Teresa Nielsen Hayden at Making Light notes that Melissa and Sean Davidson, who went after each other tooth and nail after seeing The Passion of the Christ and discovering that they were not of one mind when it comes to the Trinity, reprised a bit of ecclesiastical history:
The night before the final balloting at the Council of Nicea, Saint Nicholas of Myra punched out Arius in a bar fight arising from a very similar argument.
(Thanks, Melanie!)
Copyright © 2004 by Philocrites | Posted 20 March 2004 at 9:11 AM
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Melanie:
March 20, 2004 09:55 AM | Permalink for this comment
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