Hurtado shows early devotion to Jesus, but he is careful to call it binitarian rather than a full Trinity, and he doesn’t claim the first Christians held Nicene theology.

That is an accurate summary of Hurtado, and his care is worth respecting. He argues for an early mutation of Jewish monotheism in which Jesus is included in devotional practice reserved for God, and he declines to translate that directly into fourth-century categories. That is enough for this claim, which says only that Jesus was worshiped as divine before any council met. The step from early devotional inclusion to Nicene definition is what the rest of this case argues, and it is a step, not a leap.