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Athanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 31
… It must be confessed that Athanasius does not penetrate to the full meaning of S. Paul. The latter also ascribed a central import to the mere fact of the Incarnation (Rom. viii. 3, pempsas), but …
2,562 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 34
… With regard to the Incarnation, it may be admitted that Athanasius uses language which might have been modified had he had later controversies in view. His common use of anthropos for the Manhood of Christ …
2,202 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 87
… Athanasius (Vide Epiphan., Hær., 72, 4) as one who held notions akin to Sabellianism, and fatal to a true belief in the Divine Sonship and the Incarnation. The theory ascribed to him was that the …
816 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 43
… He afterwards faced both ways, to Athanasius and the Eusebians, and was recognised by them as a bishop. Dict. Christ. Biog. iii. 302. [472] Georgius succeeded the Arian Theodotus, of whom mention has already been …
834 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 51
… How this necessity is met in the Incarnation is shewn in the pages which follow. The general design of the second tract is to illustrate and confirm the doctrine of the Incarnation by shewing (1 …
2,463 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 56
… Swainson thinks, it is "scarcely ambiguous," "it is defective." Both the Verb and the Substantive enanthropesis are constantly used by Athanasius to denote the Incarnation in a perfectly general way, without any indication of ambiguity …
2,240 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 56
Chapter IV.--On the Death of George, Athanasius returns to Alexandria, and takes Possession of his See. Not long after this, Athanasius returning from his exile, was received with great joy by the people of …
1,401 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 22
… We may read almost all of it, where Hilary himself had certainly read it, in the Discourses against the Arians and elsewhere in the writings of Athanasius. How far, however, he was borrowing from the …
2,243 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 3
… treatise on the Incarnation of the Word. There is, however, one element in the influence of Origen and his successors which already comes out, and which never lost its hold upon Athanasius,--the principle of …
2,274 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 32
… Religion not philosophy is the sphere in which the God of Athanasius is manifest to man. Here, again, Athanasius is Christo-centric.' With Origen, Athanasius refuses to allow evil any substantive existence (c. Gent. §§2 …
2,323 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 30
… To Athanasius the Incarnation of the Son of God, and especially his Death on the Cross, is the centre of faith and theology (Incar. 19, kephalaion tes pisteos, cf. 9. 1 and 2, 20. 2 …
2,267 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 99
… the Incarnation to mere logomachies, and have jeered at those who could waste their time and energies over such trivialities. For example, it has been said that the real difference between Arius and Athanasius was …
2,200 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 13
… Eusebius of Nicomedia, recalled from exile with his friend and neighbour Theognis, not long after the election of Athanasius in 328, was ready to move heaven and earth to efface the results of the council …
2,652 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 14
… We now perceive the subtle difference between Marcellus and Athanasius. Neither of them could formulate the idea of Personality in the Holy Trinity. But Athanasius, apparently on the basis of a more thorough intelligence of …
2,207 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 52
A somewhat similar caution is necessary with regard to the analogy drawn out (41, &c.) between the Incarnation and the Union of the Word with the Universe. The treatise itself (17. 1, ektos kat' ousian …
2,353 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 48
… We learn from Athanasius (c. Arian. i. 37, 38, 40), that from St. Paul's language Philipp. ii. 9: "Wherefore also God highly exalted Him, &c.," and from Ps. xlv. 7: "Thou hast loved righteousness …
2,209 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 86
… Leo on the Incarnation, pp. 213 et seqq.) The Semi-Arian party in the fourth century attempted to steer a middle course between calling the Son Consubstantial and calling him a creature. Their position, indeed …
2,250 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 40
… In the two-fold work before us Athanasius looks before and after.' The second portion, on the Incarnation, waxes rather than wanes in its significance for modern theology. It is more modern to us than …
1,390 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 167
… He was deposed at the Latrocinium and Athanasius restored. Both bishops signed at Chalcedon as bishops of Perrha (Labbe iv, 602, 590. Dict. Christ. Biog. iv, 574. The letter may be dated 450. Theodoret chides …
2,663 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 207
… of the Incarnation. What is meant by it will be found infr. 78-81. viz. that our Lord came to implant in the creatures a type and semblance of His Image;' which is just what …
2,201 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 120
… 2) as applied to the Incarnation of our Lord, regarded as the Dispensation, the Divine Method for the salvation of mankind. This use is very frequent in St. Athanasius (compare Ep. Æg. 2. and Orat …
924 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 73
… The interpretation of the main text given in this tract was not subsequently maintained by Athanasius: in Orat. iii. 35, he explains it of the Son, as safeguarding His separate personality against the Sabellians. It …
2,295 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 122
… His ignorance of letters and of the Greek language does not prevent his forcibly employing the most effective arguments against Arianism (69), vindicating the Incarnation (74) much in the manner of Athanasius, and above all …
2,472 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 71
Leaving Athanasius, we have the following evidence concerning the history of the word hupostasis. S. Jerome says, "The whole school of secular learning understanding nothing else by hypostasis than usia, essence," Ep. xv. 4, where …
1,538 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 186
… The subsistence [2267] of God the Word before the Incarnation was simple and uncompound, and incorporeal and uncreate: but after it became flesh, it became also the subsistence of the flesh, and became compounded of …
1,152 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 52
… The answer is fully given by Athanasius (c. Arian. iii. 58-67, pp. 425-431 in this Series). [1271] Athanasius (ad Episcopos Ægypti, § 13), referring to 1 John v. 20, This is the true (halethinos …
2,206 wordsAmbrose — Selected Works and Letters • SECTION 174
… Clearly we see, then, that both the man and the type point to the mystery of the Incarnation. [2227] S. John i. 30. [2228] Cf. Athanasius, Third Oration Against the Arians, § 35--"But should any …
2,231 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 28
… This closes the list of the dated works which can be ascribed with fair probability to Athanasius. The remainder of the writings of Athanasius may be enumerated under groups, to which the dated' works will …
2,249 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 497
… As for John the glory of the Episcopate of Constantinople, whose holy life obtained the reward of martyrdom without any show of Gentile persecution, hear what he thought and taught on the Incarnation of the …
918 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 33
… God Three in One and the Incarnation. To dwell at length on the theology of Athanasius under this head is unnecessary here, not because there is little to say, but partly because what there is …
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