The decision in favour of the Athanasian view at Nicaea did not immediately end the controversy. |
The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome. |
As Lewis Ayres shows in his book Nicaea and its Legacy, there were numerous points of disagreement and dissent. |
They chose for the meeting a part of the sea-shore, in the Malian gulf, near Nicaea. |
Not only are they against the spirit and the letter of Anglican formularies, they are against one of the decrees of the Council of Nicaea, as we point out. |
This pattern continued in the early ecumenical councils, especially Nicaea. |