Athanasius of Alexandria (c.295-373) is one of the greatest and most controversial figures of early Christian history. His life spanned the period of fundamental change for the Roman Empire and the Christian Church that followed the conversion of Constantine the Great, the first Christian Roman ...
Athanasius: The Coherence of his Thought. By Khaled Anatolios. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. viii + 258 pp. $75.00 (cloth). Athanasius of Alexandria is arguably the most powerful voice from the ancient Church on themes of the redeeming power of the incarnation and the idea of ...
On the death of Alexander (A.D. 326), he was made bishop of Alexandria by the voice of the people as well as of the ecclesiastics. He discharged his duties with exemplary fidelity; but the Arians soon commenced a series of violent attacks upon him, which embittered all his remaining ...
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 ...
Saint Athanasius was born in Alexandria, Egypt, towards the end of the third century, and from his youth was pious, learned, and deeply versed in the sacred writings. He left the paternal home to be raised by the bishop of Alexandria like a new Samuel in the Lord's temple, as befitted...
This chapter presents the life, works, and theology of Athanasius, a fourth-century bishop of Alexandria. Athanasius penned various treatises and organized alliances which had the eventual effect of uniting all like-minded theologians behind the Nicene Creed. Athanasius is among those lucky authors ...
This article considers how Athanasius of Alexandria was read by Reformed Protestants of the early modern period. Attention is given to anthologies of patristic material, to John Calvin, Reiner Bachoff (Bachofius), and his (1603), Abraham Scultetus's (1606), and Amandus Polanus of Polansdorf ...
Thennal section of the book is a historical examination of the evidence concerningnthe theologies of Arius and others associated together to show the constructionnof "Athanasian Arianism" as a polemical tool to discredit all opponents to thenbishop of Alexandria. He concludes that "the Eusebians...
The study of the thought of Athanasius of Alexandria in regards of God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit, through his works such as Contra Gentes-De Incarnatione, Contra Arianos I-III, and Epistola ad Serapionem, speaks for itself the contribution he made to solidify the doctrine of the ...
Life and major works Athanasius received his philosophical and theological training atAlexandria. In 325 he attended Bishop Alexander of Alexandria asdeaconat theCouncil of Nicaea. A recognized theologian andascetic, Athanasius was the obvious candidate to succeed Alexander when the latter died in 328...