The study of Nicene Christology overwhelmingly focuses on textual sources – tomes, homilies, epistles, and creedal formulations. Yet Patristic theological reflection was not confined to written and spoken words. Early Christians both inhabited and contributed to a world in which visual imagery was a crucial medium of communication. Much scholarship has focused on the communicative power of images and the role of visuality in Roman culture, and art historians have produced extensive work on early Christian symbolism. Yet this context and engagement with interdisciplinary application have remained largely neglected in evangelical scholarship on early Christianity, particularly for Patristic hermeneutics and Christology. The relationship between material expression, texts, and Christological conviction deserves further exploration, especially in discussions regarding Nicaea. This paper attends to painted images and elaborately carved sarcophagi from the second through fourth centuries, demonstrating that these visual productions communicate deliberate, meaningful, and complex Christological affirmations with methods and assumptions strikingly similar to their verbal counterparts. That is, when the interpretive patterns embedded within early Christian paintings and chiseled images are examined, it becomes evident that these visual works do more than ‘illustrate’ Scripture or display a decorative pastiche. Their iconographic programs patently align with scenes and figures invoked in Patristic texts to support Christological assertions. Visual rhetoric and verbal discourse reinforce and even augment meaning in one another in the Patristic articulation of Christology, and we are remiss to neglect either. This paper thus invites reconsideration of the relationship between text and image in Christological discourse, demonstrating that for early Christians, art was not merely illustrative but deeply exegetical and pastoral. Reflection on these complimentary visual and verbal modes of early Christian theological communication will conclude the presentation: how might attention to the role of the visual in doctrinal formation enhance evangelical approaches to theological scholarship and pastoral conversations about Nicene retrieval today?