“Nicaea as a Way of Life”

The B.C.S. Annual Lecture took place May 6, 2025

Fr. Khaled presented to students and supporters of Saints Cyril and Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary: an interpretation of the Council of Nicaea as a contestation about the lordship of Christ. This interpretation will lead to some recommendations for how the Nicene confession can help us to answer the question today of what it means to say that Jesus is Lord.

* An archived version of lecture will be available on our website and YouTube channel at a later date. Please check back.

Fr. Khaled Anatalios, a priest of the Melkite Catholic Eparchy of Newton (N. America), is the John A. O’Brien Professor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and a fellow at the Tantur Ecumenical Institute (Jerusalem). Fr. Khaled wife’s name is Meredith, who also has her master’s in theology and together they have four children. His primary field of study is in the history of Christianity, with specific research and training interests in Early Christian Doctrine, Theological Method, and Biblical Exegesis. A particular focus of his work is the engagement between early Christian theological reflection and contemporary theological concerns.

A graduate with his PhD from Boston College, Fr. Khaled’s most well-known work in systematic theology is Deification through the Cross, An Eastern Christian Theology of Salvation (2020) and his best-known scholarly work in the history of Christianity, which makes contributions on the all-important figure of St. Athanasius the Great, is Retrieving Nicaea: The Development and Meaning of Trinitarian Doctrine (2018). He is also the author of Feasts for the Kingdom, Sermons for the Liturgical Year (2023) and the editor of The Trinity in the Life of the Church (2014).

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