THE COUNCIL OF NICE.
TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Absence from town has prevented my noticing earlier “ Catholic’s ” letter, which appeared in your issue of the 10th instant. I pass by the ques'tionable taste and decency displayed in comparing the dogma of the Pope’s infallibility with the doctrine of the Divine Trinity—a comparison which it is difficult to conceive any believer in that doctrine could have dared to institute. But when “Catholic’’ says that at the Council of Nice " the divine attributes of the second person of the Blessed Trinity were defined against the sectators of Amis,’’ he is himself using the very language of the Arians, and not that of Catholics of the fourth century. To define the attributes of the second person, would be _to set limits and boundaries to- those attributes which the Council of Nice declared to have no limits, but to be infinite. What “ Catholic" asserts that the Council did, is exactly what the Council met to condemn the Arians for having ventured to do. “ Catholic” may possibly attempt to explain away the careless language he has used. I can only say that if ho had been at Nice to use such language in the Council, no explanation that he could have subsequently made would have induced Hosius aud Athanasius to believe that he was not an Arian-at .heart. X insinuate nothing as to the unknown writer’s faith, but I think it would be wise, to say the least, for those who do not understand the meaning of words, and are unacquainted with theology, to abstain from giving publicity to their crude thoughts.—! am, &c., Protestant. February IS,
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4339, 15 February 1875, Page 2
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