Confessing the Triune God

The Nicene Creed

James Dolezal

Fred Sanders

Hosted by Immanuel Baptist Church

Contact: admin@ibcsac.org | 530.219.0470

Pastors’ Workshop

Friday, September 19

9am: "It's Nicene to Be Baptist: Nicaea's Biblical Context and Baptist Reception" || Steve Meister

10:15am: "Pro-Nicene Principles for Preachers: Partitive Exegesis and the Gospels" || Tim Ingrum

11:15am: "Truth or Tribe? Pastoral Reflections on Recovering Christian Orthodoxy Today" || Rob Briggs

SGC General Conference

Friday, September 19

6pm: Session 1—“Stumbling toward Nicaea: Subordinationism in Theology Before Nicaea” || Dr. James Dolezal

7pm: Session 2—"The Council and Its Creed: The Story from Nicaea (325) to Constantinople (381)" || Dr. Fred Sanders

8pm: Questions & Answers

Saturday, September 20

9am: Session 3—“‘Maker of Heaven and Earth’: The Father’s Way of Creating” || Dr. James Dolezal

10am: Session 4—“‘God of God’: What Kind of Son is the Son?" || Dr. Fred Sanders

11:15am: Session 5—"Homoousion: Nicaea’s Most Contentious Word” || Dr. James Dolezal

1:15pm: Session 6—"Sent by the Father: Trinitarian Mission” || Dr. Fred Sanders

2:15pm: Questions & Answers

Seminar Speaker

James Dolezal

James Dolezal is assistant professor of theology in the School of Divinity at Cairn University. He is a California native and is a graduate of The Master’s College, The Master’s Seminary, and Westminster Theological Seminary. Prior to his current appointment James served as the pastor of a Reformed Baptist church in Alberta, Canada.

He is the author of God without Parts: Divine Simplicity and the Metaphysics of God’s Absoluteness (Pickwick, 2011) and of All That Is in God: Evangelical Theology and the Challenge of Classical Christian Theism (Reformation Heritage Books, 2017). He and his wife Courtney live with their three children in Warminster, PA.

Seminar Speaker

Fred Sanders

Fred Sanders is a theologian who studies and teaches across the full range of Christian doctrines, but always with a special focus on the doctrine of the Trinity. Since 1999, Fred has taught in the Torrey Honors College, an undergraduate program in the great books, at Biola University.

Fred studied art (drawing and printmaking) in college, earned an MDiv at Asbury Theological Seminary, and a PhD from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. He and his wife Susan (who have been friends since they met at age 11) are members of Grace Evangelical Free Church in La Mirada, CA. They have two adult children.