What Was the Council of Nicaea (Really)?

According to The Da Vinci Code, all sorts of wild things happened at the Council of Nicaea in 325 CE. Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, chose the books of the New Testament. The role of women in the Church was suppressed. And most importantly, a bunch of powerful bishops decided (by a slim margin) that Jesus Christ was actually divine.
As our guest Sara Parvis (edwebprofiles.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-sara-parvis) explains, the Council of Nicaea was indeed a momentous meeting, but for very different reasons.
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