You are a resident of a fairly small country town in the western half of the empire. You are just setting off to the forum for your daily rounds of errands when you hear the distant proceedings of the great council convened by the emperor at Nicaea being read from the front steps of the parish church. Whether you yourself are Christian or not, you are well aware that the new religion`s growing acceptance and prestige within the empire has made its regulations and tenets more relevant than ever, even in provinces distant from the emperor and his great religious advisors. It is now up to you to relate the news of the council to your family and friends—what do you tell them, and how?

You are a resident of a fairly small country town in the western half of the empire. You are just setting off to the forum for your daily rounds of errands when you hear the distant proceedings of the great council convened by the emperor at Nicaea being read from the front steps of the parish church. Whether you yourself are Christian or not, you are well aware that the new religion`s growing acceptance and prestige within the empire has made its regulations and tenets more relevant than ever, even in provinces distant from the emperor and his great religious advisors. It is now up to you to relate the news of the council to your family and friends—what do you tell them, and how? No direct quotation is allowed from the attached file, but it should be kind of a paraphrase: what would be important for some contemporary citizen, based from the attached “Canons and Creed of Nicea” text.