Nicea e l’Occidente nel quarto secolo
Nicaea and the West in the Fourth Century

Summary/Abstract: After a period of uncertainty (which appears such to us also due to a lack of sources) lasting about twenty years, the Nicene Creed was received very favorably in the West. Almost all the bishops who wrote during the sole reign of Constantius II (351–361) opposed the Homoian doctrine coming from the East, and through their writings they sought to arrive at a definition of faith that fully embraced the Creed. This contribution is not intended merely as a study dedicated to the theology of the Western Church Fathers of that period—on which many scholarly works can be read with profit—but also aims to explore the personal reactions of Christian writers to the doctrines they considered heretical and to the un-Christian atmosphere created by religious controversies and conflicts. So, not only theological thought, but also Christian conduct.

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