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The creed that formalizes the coequal unity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; Jiang treats it as enforced orthodoxy.
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Nicene Creed
The creed that formalizes the coequal unity of God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit; Jiang treats it as enforced orthodoxy.
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diagnosis
The Nicene Creed standardizes the Holy Trinity, but Jiang treats it as an inconsistent formula that must be memorized because questioning it risks heresy.
model
The Nicene Creed triumphed because Constantinople saw Catholic Church legitimacy as a source of imperial power and enforced doctrine through military expeditions.
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"...a Christian, you still recite it. All right? It's called the Nicene Creed. So, can you read it, Allen?"
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"We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible. And in one Lord..."
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"...they are co -equal, all right? If you actually study this Nicene Creed, you'll find all of this. You'll find a lot of inconsistencies,..."
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"But once they're being settled through Europe, the conflict between these noble families in Rome then become a conflict amongst these different groups, okay?..."
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"...others. And this is what leads to the idea of the Nicene Creed. Remember, the Nicene Creed is the idea of the Holy Trinity."
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"And, at this time, when the Nicene Creed is first formulated, most people, most churches, do not buy into the Nicene Creed. They do..."
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"...was not only barbaric and outdated compared to the great monotheistic creeds, but also unable to confer on their leaderships the spiritual and legal..."
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"...cared not whence it came, where it was to be found, creed, country, class, character, and this respect were alike indifferent to him."
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"...called the assassins. You may have played the video game Assassin's Creed, okay?"
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"...your own ears, with a bright mind. Choose truth from false creed, each person for his own self before the final judgment comes. Okay?..."
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"...able to tell what Christianity meant, okay? You had to recite Nicene Creed, which is a holy trinity, okay? So remember we discussed the..."
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"...disagree with the church. For example, they don't really understand the Nicene Creed. Well, if you don't understand something, it's called ignorance or superstition,..."
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Rome fails to build a bureaucracy, Byzantium survives behind walls, and Western Europe is ruled by a stranger empire: a church that claims the sky, the soul, and the right to make impossible doctrine...
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The Holy Roman Empire was not holy, not Roman, and not much of an empire.
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