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Lactantius, Venantius, Asterius, Victorinus & Others • SECTION 147
… A fragment of an epistle or treatise of Dionysius, bishop of Rome. [From the epistle of St. Athanasius, De Decretis Nicænæ Synodi, cap. xxvi. p. 231, ed. Benedict.] [2342] Athan., Ep. de decret. Nic. Syn …
857 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 291
… The letter is one of the masterpieces of Athanasius: its unforced warmth, vigour, and affection can fail to touch no one who reads it. It is, like the letter to Amun, one of our most …
851 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 52
… It may be pointed out here that the real difference between Athanasius and the neo-Platonists was not so much upon the Union of the Word with any created Substance, which they were prepared to …
2,353 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 285
… From Letter XXVII.--(For 355.) From the twenty-seventh Festal Letter of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria and Confessor; of which the commencement is, Again the season of the day of the living Passover [4525] .' For …
2,435 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 421
… Nicæa, [3174]521. Assyria, laws of, [3175]573. Assyrian Empire, overthrow of, [3176]574. Assyrians, [3177]576. Athanasius, letters of C. to, [3178]439; (source), 446. Attaliata, Michæl (source), [3179]453. Augustinus (source), [3180]447 …
706 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 123
… commercium intercludit. Et in epist. 198, hierateion intelligit coetum clericorum, eique ascribit clericos qui epistolas episcopi perferebant. Athanasius ad Rufinianum scribens, rogat eum ut epistolam legat hieratei& 251; et populo. Gregorius Nazianzenus lectores sacri ordinis …
884 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 129
… on this point needful; and in 363, on his return from his fourth period of exile, S. Athanasius held a provincial Synod at Alexandria, in whose Synodical Letter to the Emperor Jovian the Godhead of …
2,390 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 2
… took refuge in Tarsus with its Bishop the "admirable Silvanus," "one of the Semi-Arians," who, as Athanasius testifies, agreed almost entirely with the Nicene doctrine, only taking offence at the expression homoousios, because in …
2,431 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 55
… At Tyre he is described by Sozomen and Socrates as assenting to the deposition of Athanasius but Rufinus (H. E. i. 17) tells the dramatic story of the successful interposition of the aged and mutilated …
879 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 159
… Yet even this only shews their violent conduct, and the hatred of Liberius against the heresy, and his support of Athanasius, so long as he was suffered to exercise a free choice. For that which …
2,459 wordsHilary of Poitiers & John of Damascus • SECTION 17
… He had outlived Hilary and Eusebius, and also Athanasius, the promoter of the last attack upon him; he had also outlived whatever Arianism there had been in Milan. His successor, St. Ambrose, had the enthusiastic …
2,421 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 128
… 12. [1033] This is not quite the view of Athanasius himself, who regards the air as cleared of evil spirits by the Death of Christ, de Incar. xxv. 5: but Athan. does not mean that …
2,425 wordsFathers of the Second Century • SECTION 24
… Let me also add Athanasius, De Incarnatione, p. 38; Contra Hæresim Arian., p. 369; Ibid., 380. To the testimony of this great Father and defender of the faith I attach the greatest importance; because his …
2,426 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 187
… of Bithynia, and, the vessel being set on fire, were burnt to death. [4490] Jacob, i.e., Athanasius. Esau = George. [4491] Rom. ix. 11. [4492] Nebuzaradan. Demosthenes, a creature of Valens, sent to persuade Basil …
2,451 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 5
[96] The most important instance being that of Athanasius, who, on his return to Alexandria after his third exile, held a synod which condemned Macedonians as well as Arians. cf. Newman's Arians, v. 1 …
2,433 wordsCyril of Jerusalem & Gregory Nazianzen • SECTION 94
… the Fourth Century, and was at one time greatly respected for his learning and orthodoxy by S. Athanasius and S. Basil. He was even an instructor of S. Jerome in 374, but he seceded from …
2,437 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 89
… Blind from the age of four, he educated himself with marvellous patience, and was placed by Athanasius at the head of the catechetical school of Alexandria. Jerome called him his teacher and seer and translated …
900 wordsSocrates and Sozomen — Ecclesiastical Histories • SECTION 59
… These infamous rites were practiced in other cities, but more particularly at Athens and Alexandria; in which latter place, a calumnious accusation was made against Athanasius the bishop, the emperor being assured that he was …
903 wordsThe Seven Ecumenical Councils • SECTION 150
… the decretal letters] of Dionysius, formerly Archbishop of the great city of Alexandria; and of Peter, Archbishop of Alexandria and Martyr; of Gregory the Wonder-worker, Bishop of Neocæsarea; of Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria; of …
924 wordsEusebius — Church History, Constantine & Oration • SECTION 4
… in Egypt, addressed Eusebius in the following words: "Dost thou sit as judge, O Eusebius; and is Athanasius, innocent as he is, judged by thee? Who can bear such things? Pray tell me, wast thou …
2,507 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 8
… Hence the deification' of man's nature by union with Christ (a remarkable point of contact with Athanasius, see note on de Incar. 54. 3); incorruption is attained to by the knowledge of God (cf …
2,507 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 10
… They are Eusebius of Nicomedia, Maris, Theognis, Athanasius of Anazarba, Menophantus; all Lucianists. The first Arian writer, Asterius (see below), is a Lucianist. (The Egyptian bishops Secundus and Theonas cannot be put down to any …
2,519 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 103
… epicheiremata means more definitely reasonings or argumentations. [751] alogias; an allusion frequent in Athanasius, to the judicial consequence of their denying the Word of God. Thus, just below, n. 3. "Denying the Word" or Reason …
2,544 wordsSulpitius Severus, Vincent of Lerins & John Cassian • SECTION 464
… It is however freely used by Epiphanius in his Anchoratus, and is also found in the exposition of faith assigned to Athanasius (Migne. Pat. Græc. xxv. p. 197). And Augustine himself actually uses the title …
945 wordsAugustine — Confessions & Letters • SECTION 114
… that way seemed unto me safer which I remembered to have been often related to me of Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, who obliged the reader of the psalm to give utterance to it with so …
935 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 46
… 36, numina vicinorum Odit uterque locus.' This is one of the few places where Athanasius has any Egyptian local colour' (cf. supra 9 and 10). M. Fialon is certainly too imaginative (p. 86 contradicted p …
2,543 wordsBasil — Letters and Select Works • SECTION 89
… The moral and ascetic indicate the growing importance of the monastic institution which Athanasius at about the same time was instrumental in recommending to the Latin Church. The disciplinary, (notably 188, 199, and 217), to …
944 wordsAthanasius — Select Works and Letters • SECTION 182
… 2. [2073] It was a point in controversy with the extreme Monophysites, that is, the Eutychians, whether our Lord's body was naturally subject to death, the Catholics maintaining the affirmative, as Athanasius here. Eutyches …
2,585 wordsTertullian, Minucius Felix, Commodian & Origen • SECTION 396
… See Athanasius, De Decret. Nic., § 27; also the peri archon (if Rufinus may be trusted), for Origen's denouncement of the still more characteristic Arianism of the en hote ouk en and the ex ouk …
948 wordsTheodoret, Jerome, Gennadius & Rufinus — Historical Writings • SECTION 1
… Alexander, bishop of Alexandria, died in January (perhaps April), and Athanasius succeeds, probably on June 8th. The Festal Index gives 328. Theod. i. 25; Soc. i. 15; Soz. ii. 17. 327. ? Consecration of Frumentius to …
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