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The 44 pages that link to Nicene Creed, each with the reason it gives.

• Early ChristianityRelated: Its language became a durable marker of doctrinal orthodoxy.

• ArianismRelated: Its wording directly rejects the claim that the Son was created.

• Athanasius of AlexandriaRelated: Athanasius defended its claim that the Son is of the same essence as the Father.

• TrinityBroader topic: Its statements about the Son and Spirit give the doctrine a standard creedal form.

• Christian theologyBroader topic: It condenses conclusions from early doctrinal controversies into a widely used confession.

• First Council of NicaeaBroader topic: The council’s creed used precise language to reject Arius’s account of the Son.

• ChristologyRelated: Its language about the Son crystallizes foundational Christological claims.

• Ecumenical councilRelated: Creeds gave councils concise language for expressing and testing doctrinal agreement.

• Greek Orthodox ChurchRelated: It summarizes core doctrine confessed in Greek Orthodox worship.

• Cyril of AlexandriaNarrower topic: Cyril’s Christological claims relied on the creed’s confession of the Son as fully divine.

• Arian controversyRelated: It declares the Son begotten, not made, and of the same substance as the Father.

• Episcopal polityRelated: Its reference to one, holy, catholic, and apostolic church informs episcopal claims to continuity.

• First Council of ConstantinopleRelated: The council’s doctrinal work is chiefly associated with its expanded creed.

• FilioqueNarrower topic: The Filioque is an addition to its article about the Holy Spirit.

• HomoousionRelated: Its 325 form used homoousion to express the Son’s unity of substance with the Father.

• TheotokosRelated: Its confession of the Son’s divinity underlies the title’s claim about the child Mary bore.

• Nicene ChristianityBroader topic: This creed supplies the defining confession of Nicene Christianity.

• East–West SchismNarrower topic: The Filioque controversy concerned the wording and authority surrounding this shared creed.

• Eastern OrthodoxyRelated: Its confession of the Trinity is central to Orthodox worship and doctrine.

• Basil of CaesareaRelated: Basil defended its confession of the Son’s full divinity amid fourth-century controversy.

• UnitarianismCompared with: Its confession of the Son’s consubstantiality with the Father conflicts with Unitarian doctrine.

• Church FathersRelated: Fathers debated and defended the creed’s account of the Son’s relation to the Father.

• Holy SpiritRelated: Its wording became a foundational public statement of Trinitarian belief.

• ShahadaCompared with: It provides a historic Christian creed whose claims about God and Jesus differ from the Shahada.

• Apostolic traditionBroader topic: Its authority is widely grounded in the church’s reception of inherited apostolic faith.

• Gregory of NazianzusRelated: Gregory defended its confession of the Son’s divinity and helped secure its authority at Constantinople.

• Classical theismRelated: Its claims about creator and creation express central commitments of Christian classical theism.

• Gregory of NyssaRelated: Gregory’s theology helped articulate the creed’s account of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

• Apostles' CreedCompared with: It shares the creed's central claims but expands them, especially against disputes about Christ's divinity.

• ModalismCompared with: Its language of distinct relations and shared divinity rejects modalist formulations.

• ShemaCompared with: Its account of God is framed through Christian doctrine, unlike the Shema’s Jewish confession of divine unity.

• God the SonRelated: Its language became a central statement of Christian belief about the Son.

• PatristicsRelated: Its formulation crystallized controversies debated by patristic theologians.

• Battle of the FrigidusRelated: Theodosius’s religious policy framed the conflict’s later Christian interpretation.

• Chalcedonian ChristianityRelated: Its confession of Christ’s divinity forms a doctrinal foundation for Chalcedon.

• Michael ServetusRelated: Its formulations express the orthodox Trinitarian beliefs Servetus rejected.

• MormonismCompared with: Its Trinitarian formulation differs from the theology of the largest Latter Day Saint church.

• NontrinitarianismRelated: Its formulations established the creed nontrinitarian Christians do not affirm.

• Pontius PilateRelated: It names Pilate in its account of Jesus’s incarnation, suffering, and death.

• Virgin birth of JesusRelated: Its account of Jesus’s incarnation situates his birth within Christian claims about divine salvation.

• Cyril of JerusalemRelated: Cyril’s theology affirmed the creed’s confession that the Son is of one essence with the Father.

• Hilary of PoitiersRelated: Hilary defended the creed’s account of the Son against Arian interpretations.

• Hosius of CordubaBroader topic: The creed expressed the position Hosius helped advance against Arian claims about the Son.

• God the FatherRelated: Its wording establishes the Father’s relation to the Son and the Father’s status as creator.