Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.4: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters (Catholic Edition)
Overview
Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume IV: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters. The Early Church Fathers is one of the most important collections of historical, philosophical and theological writings available in English to the student of the Christian Church. These documents provide the most comprehensive witness to the development of Christianity and Christian thought during the period immediately following the Apostolic Era. The Catholic edition of Early Church Fathers does not include the introductions, prolegomenae, and various interpretive comments made by the protestant editors of the Edinburgh edition. However, it retains all of the footnotes found in the printed editions. Contents of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series IV Athanasius of Alexandria Against the Heathen On the Incarnation of the Word Deposition of Arius Letter of Eusebius Statement of Faith On Luke 10:22 (Matthew 11:27) Encyclical Letter Defence against the Arians Defence of the Nicene Definition On the Opinion of Dionysius Life of Antony Letter to the Bishops of Egypt Defence before Constantius Defence of His Flight History of the Arians Four Discourses against the Arians On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia Tome or Synodal Letter to the People of Antioch Letter to the Bishops of Africa Festal Letters Personal Letters
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“Therefore He was not man, and then became God, but He was God, and then became man, and that to deify us1.” (Page 329)
“For if, out of a former normal state of non-existence, they were called into being by the Presence and loving-kindness of the Word, it followed naturally that when men were bereft of the knowledge of God and were turned back to what was not (for what is evil is not, but what is good is), they should, since they derive their being from God who IS, be everlastingly bereft even of being; in other words, that they should be disintegrated and abide in death and corruption.” (Page 38)
“was there daily a martyr to his conscience, and contending in the conflicts of faith.” (Page 209)
“Whence, naturally, willing to profit men, He sojourns here as man, taking to Himself a body like the others, and from things of earth, that is by the works of His body [He teaches them], so that they who would not know Him from His Providence and rule over all things, may even from the works done by His actual body know the Word of God which is in the body, and through Him the Father.” (Page 44)
“This conceit of theirs, then, being evidently rotten, the truth of the Church’s theology must be manifest: that evil has not from the beginning been with God or in God, nor has any substantive existence; but that men, in default of the vision of good, began to devise and imagine for themselves what was not, after their own pleasure.” (Page 7)
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers 2.4: St. Athanasius: Select Works and Letters (Catholic Edition)
- Authors: Philip Schaff, Henry Wace, Athanasius of Alexandria
- Series: Early Church Fathers (Catholic Edition)
- Volume: 4
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Print Publication Date: 1892
- Logos Release Date: 2001
- Era: era:nicene
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Christian literature, early; Fathers of the church
- Resource ID: LLS:6.60.118
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:03:44Z