Athanasius had no intention of writing a theological system. He only found himself defending the truths of the Scripture against the then Arian heresies that threatened the deity of Jesus Christ and of the Holy Spirit. Unlike today' s theologians, Athanasius did not have a heap of books from ...
Athanasius (ca. 300-373) became bishop of Alexandria in 328. He seems to have been present at the Council of Nicaea three years earlier as an assistant to his predecessor, Bishop Alexander. Athanasius immediately faced two weighty problems—the schism of the rigorist Melitians and the still ...
Opposition also came from Christians who felt that the practices at the martyr shrines during the all night vigils (which involved loud music, drunken revelry, and the comingling of the sexes) were extreme enough to warrant the prohibition of martyr veneration in its entirety. Others felt that ...
Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria’’’s Thirty-Ninth "Festal Letter"". Brakke,David. The Harvard Theological Review . 1994Brakke, David 1994, "Canon Formation and Social Conflict in Fourth-Century Egypt: Athanasius of Alexandria's Thirty-Ninth F...
We are raised up "to the life of God" (V 9.2; ANF 1:535).In Alexandria, Clement wrote, "the Logos of God had become man so that you might learn from a man how a man may become God" (Prot 1.8.4; Pelikan 1:155). Origen connected the concept with union with God: "From Him ...