St. Augustine's Seminary | Series of Patristic Talks: Introducing Marius Victorinus as Fourth-Century Hero of the Nicene Faith

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The Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology at St. Augustine’s Seminary presents this talk as part of its Series of Patristic Talks for the 2024-2025 Academic Year.

Speaker: Dr. Wendy Helleman
Cost: Free 
Registration: Capacity is limited and attendance is by registration only. Registration will open soon to attend in-person or online. 

Talk will be followed by fellowship and light refreshments.

Celebrating the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea: Introducing Marius Victorinus as Fourth-Century Hero of the Nicene Faith

Already well advanced in years, Victorinus (ca. 290 – ca. 365 CE) became a Christian in Rome in the mid-fourth century, at a time when the Arian view, subordinating Jesus Christ as Son to the Father, threatened to undermine the Nicene affirmation of his full deity as Son (325 CE). The talk will focus on serious confusion in use of language and terminology, East and West, which would finally be clarified at the Council of Constantinople (381 CE). But well before that council, Victorinus was among the first Christian theologians to discuss the mystery of the Trinity when addressing the full deity of Christ. Not only did he give clear expression to the distinction of the “One” and “Three” in Greek; he was the first to establish and defend the appropriate corresponding terminology in Latin.