Christian Theology in the Fourth Century

"Theology (from Greek Θεός meaning "God" and λογία, -logy, meaning "study of") is the systematic and rational study of concepts of God and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary."...Theology (Wikipedia)

"Christianity in the 4th century was dominated in its early stage by Constantine the Great and the First Council of Nicaea of 325, which was the beginning of the period of the First seven Ecumenical Councils (325–787), and in its late stage by the Edict of Thessalonica of 380, which made Nicene Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire."...Christianity in the 4th century (Wikipedia)

• Christianity in the 4th century (Wikipedia)
• Category:4th-century Christian theologians (Wikipedia)
• Chronological list of Christian theologians in the 4th century (Wikipedia)
• The Eastern Fathers of the Fourth Century...by George Florovsky
• First Council of Nicaea (Wikipedia)
• The Road to Nicaea...by John Anthony Mcguckin
• The Council of Nicaea and the Bible
• The Council of Nicaea (Nicene Council)
• Arianism (Wikipedia)
• The Trinitarian/Christology Controversies
• Alexandrine Teaching
  Works of two (pre-fourth century) Alexandrian church fathers speculating and writing about the Divine realm and influenced by Platonic philosophy while teaching at the famed Catechetical School of Alexandria (an early Christian theological school).
• Educating Early Monks...The Alexandrine Schools and the Beginnings of Christian Philosophy
• The Christian Platonists of Alexandria...by Charles Bigg
• The History of Neoplatonism
• Neoplatonism (Wikipedia)
  "The Platonic view of man as a soul imprisoned within a body was for a time incorporated into Christian speculative thought through the writing of Evagrius of Pontus (d. 399) and Origen of Alexandria (d. 253 or 254), but it was later ignored in favor of a more Hebrew view of man as an animated body. The difference between considering man as an animated body (like Adam, for whom God first created a body out of the dust and then breathed life into him) or an imprisoned soul (as taught by the Greek philosophers who followed Plato) has a subtle influence on one's understanding of redemption and even of prayer...."...ORTHODOX MYSTICISM: TEACHINGS OF THE DESERT FATHERS
• Controversy and Banishment in Paradise: Promulgating on the Nature of God and the Afterlife
• The Nature of Christ and the Trinity
• "Pagan" influences on Early Christian Philosophy
• Did Constantine Invent Christianity?

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