ante-Nicene

[ an-tee-nahy-seen, -nahy-seen ]

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of or relating to the Christian church or period before the Nicene Council of a.d. 325.

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The attitude of the church in the post-Nicene period differs from that in the ante-Nicene in two important respects.

In the ante-Nicene period only ecclesiastical penalties, such as reproof, deposition or excommunication, could be imposed.

Protestants can as little bear its Ante-nicene as its Post-tridentine period.

Again, there is one and one only great doctrinal Council in Ante-nicene times.

Perhaps it will be said we ought to take the Ante-nicene Fathers as a whole, and interpret one of them by another.

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