Nicaea at 1700 will feature keynote lectures from Fr. Khaled Anatolios, John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame, author of Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (Baker Academic, 2011 & 2018), Fr. Andrew Hofer, OP,

Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages, Dominican House of Studies, author of The Power of Patristic Preaching: The Word in Our Flesh (Catholic University of America Press, 2023), and Prof. Lewis Ayres, McDonald Agape Distinguished Chair in Early Christian Theology, Pontifical University of St. Thomas (Angelicum), author of Nicaea and Its Legacy: An Approach to Fourth Century Theology (Oxford University Press, 2004).

The conference will feature several sets of break-out sessions. Scholars are encouraged to submit an abstract of no more than 300 words exploring the theme of the conference through the lens of their own research. Following the conference, break-out session presenters will be invited to submit their work for a conference proceedings publication. Relevant topics include but are not limited to...

• Scripture and Nicaea

• Nicaea and its Texts—Definition, Anathematization, Canons

• Nicaea and Reception History

• Nicaea’s Proponents

• Nicaea’s Opponents

• Early Western Reception of Nicaea (e.g., Augustine, Boethius, etc.

• Philosophical Foundations of Nicene Orthodoxy

• Nicaea and Church-State Relations

• The Nicene Creed in Liturgical Traditions

• The 318 Fathers of Nicaea

• Nicaea and Ecumenism

• Nicaea and the New Evangelization

• Ressourcement and the New Evangelization

• Nicaea as a Model/Caution for Synodality