“If anyone does not confess that the world and all things which are contained in it, both spiritual and material, were produced, according to their whole substance, out of nothing by God; or holds that God did not create by his will free from all necessity, but as necessarily as he ne...
I’ve written on this a fair amount in the past so I won’t go through all of that again except to summarize in brief the reasons Athanasius lays out in his Letter to Marcellinus: The Psalms are a microcosm of Scripture itself, containing all of the scriptural genres within its pages: ...
Jews are the living words of Scripture for us, for they remind us always of what Our Lord suffered. They are dispersed all over the world so that, by expiating [?] their crime, they may everywhere be the living witnesses of our redemption ... Wherefore, the Church says: "Scatter them...
St. John Chrysostom is venerated among St. Ambrose, St. Augustine, and St. Athanasius as one of the four Church fathers supporting thecathedra(throne) of St. Peter at the basilica in Rome. Did this Church who canonized him as a Doctor of the Church, and who until this day celebrates hi...
It didn’t mean that these weren’t widely read—because they were—they just weren’t part of the group designated as Scripture. While various church leaders drew up various lists, the first one that we have that contains all of our books in their current order is from St. Athanasius’...
ut Pascha Dominicum nec prius possimus habere nec tardius9). An earlier reference to this tradition can be found in theFestal Letterof St. Athanasius for the year A.D. 349. This Letter expresses that the date of Easter for that year proposed by the church of Alexandria — after the Fir...
Athanasius, Gregory Nazianzen, Basil, and Leo. It was readily evident that modern leaders in Christian humanitarianism such as Maurice and Wilberforce could be classed under the same Collect, but their predecessors of earlier times, such as Nicholas and Elizabeth of Hungary, were better served by ...
It didn’t mean that these weren’t widely read—because they were—they just weren’t part of the group designated as Scripture. While various church leaders drew up various lists, the first one that we have that contains all of our books in their current order is from St. Athanasius’...