Word: nicaea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Among past councils were Nicaea (325), which formulated the first Nicene Creed; Constantinople (869), which was the beginning of the final schism between the Eastern and Western churches; Trent (1545-63), which condemned Martin Luther as a heretic and tightened up Catholic practice and doctrine...
...final exam for one of the most popular courses at Amherst College -Religion 22. Students were not particularly surprised: Episcopalian Professor James Alfred Martin Jr. is celebrated for his offbeat exams. (Once he directed students to write TV scripts for the program You Are There at the Council of Nicaea and the Diet of Worms.) Last week, in reprinting Martin's most recent final, the Amherst Alumni News provided readers with a thought-provoker and argument-starter of uncommon ingenuity. As the exam question continues, the beer-guzzling Wise Guy gives this racy history of the Christian faith...
...stands an ancient granite cross which marks the traditional spot where St. Thomas the Apostle-Doubting Thomas -met a martyr's death as India's first Christian missionary. As early as 325 A.D. the Gospel was well enough rooted there for a bishop at the Council of Nicaea to sign himself "John ... of all Persia and Great India...