11/21/20041 Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction? Part 2 Bill Petro your friendly neighborhood historian

11/21/20042 Where is it?

11/21/20043 Agenda Intro: What we’ll discuss tonight Preview: What we’ll discuss next week Review: What we covered last week

11/21/20044 Tonight: What do we know about Constantine? What happened at the Council of Nicaea? What were the issues concerning Jesus’ deity?

11/21/20045 Next Week: What is Gnosticism? Were other Gnostic/Hidden/Secret Gospels a legitimate expression of Christianity? How did we really get the New Testament? …?

11/21/20046 Last Week: Book Synopsis Who was Leonardo Da Vinci? Who was Mary Magdalene? Was Jesus married? What do we know about the Holy Grail? Is there a group known as Opus Dei? Was there an ancient Priory of Sion?

11/21/20047 Who was Constantine? First “Christian” Roman Emperor AD 312: Battle of the Milvian Bridge

11/21/20048 In this sign, Conquer 

11/21/20049 Labarum Chi-Rho

11/21/ What did Constantine do? AD 313: Edict of Milan AD 315: Arch of Constantine AD 325: Council of Nicaea

11/21/ Arch of Constantine Arch of Constantine, Forum of Rome

11/21/ St. Helena, mother of Constantine

11/21/ Scala Sancta, Rome

11/21/ St. Giovanni original home of the Popes

11/21/ Church Fathers: Age of Theologians What was Jesus Christ before he came? –Trinity What was Jesus Christ when he came? –God-ness/Man-ness What did Jesus Christ do? –Salvation

11/21/ What happened in Nicaea? 318 Bishops 7 weeks 84 issues

11/21/ Eusebius: on Nicaea When all the bishops had entered the place appointed for their session, the sides of which were filled by a great number of seats, each took his place, and awaited in silence the arrival of the Emperor… He appeared as a messenger from God, covered with gold and precious stones - a magnificent figure, tall and slender, and full of grace and majesty. To his majesty he united a great modesty and devout humility, so that he kept his eyes reverently bent upon the golden seat which had been prepared for him when the bishops gave him the signal to do so.

11/21/ Eusebius of Nicomedia vs. Eusebius of Caesarea

11/21/ Similar vs. Same HOMOI-OUSIAS  –similar HOMO-OUSIAS  –same One “iota”

11/21/ Arius vs. Athanasius

11/21/ Nicaean Creed “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty, maker of all things visible and invisible; and in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only-begotten of his Father, of the substance of the Father, God of God, Light of Light, very God of very God, begotten, not made, being of one substance (homoousion) with the Father. By whom all things were made, both which be in heaven and in earth. Who for us men and for our salvation came down [from heaven] and was incarnate and was made man. He suffered and the third day he rose again, and ascended into heaven. And he shall come again to judge both the quick and the dead. And [we believe] in the Holy Ghost… And whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not, or that before he was begotten he was not, or that he was made of things that were not, or that he is of a different substance or essence [from the Father] or that he is a creature, or subject to change or conversion--all that so say, the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.

11/21/ What happened to Arius?

11/21/ Next time… What is Gnosticism? Were other Gnostic/Hidden/Secret Gospels a legitimate expression of Christianity? Canon of the New Testament: How did we get the New Testament? …?

11/21/ Bibliography The Da Vinci Deception Erwin W. Lutzer Inspiration ISBN Cracking the Da Vinci Code James L. Garlow, Peter Jones Victor (Cook Communications) ISBN X

11/21/ Bibliography Eusebius: The Church History Paul L. Maier Kregel Publications ISBN

11/21/ Q&A