The Council of Nicaea as a Crossroads of Relationships

Abstract

The paper aims to outline the various dimensions that characterized the event of the first ecumenical council - the Council of Nicaea in 325 - to highlight the different relationships it wove, not only within the ecclesial world but also with the wider oikumene of its time. From this multiplicity of lines - that is, relationships - and through the reading of certain contemporary ecclesial events, it may be possible to discern a path for grasping some realistic ways of reinterpreting the conciliar event today. An event that might not be - or might not have been - so distant from everyday life.