Trinity and Incarnation : The Faith of the Early Church

A fresh examination of the history of early Christian doctrine, by one of the world's leading authorities, which sets its development in the political and cultural context of the Roman Empire. In the year 325 the emperor Constantine the Great summoned a general synod at Nicea, close to his residence, to settle a theological controversy which had flared up in Alexandria, the empire's cultural centre, between Alexander, the bishop of that city, and his presbyter Arius on the issue of Jesus Christ's divinity.