In the year AD 324, by the politics of word and sword, the Emperor Constantine achieved his worldly ambition of re-uniting the Roman Empire which had been split into four by his immediate predecessor. One year after this success, at the Council of Nicea,
Constantine, a Christian by conviction but not yet by baptism, attempted to bring the same sort of unity to Christianity.
Nicea condemned dissidence and enshrined authority.
In a round-table discussion to complement the series Whose Is the Kingdom?, Clifford Longley is joined by speakers from today's divided Church around the world as he asks Bishop
Trevor Huddleston , Professor Geoffrey Parrinder , Dr Pauline Webb and Fr John Mills , op, how the Church today can cope with its Nicean legacy of certainty and discipline. Producer FRANCES GUM LEY