On the Incarnation - Softcover

Athanasius, St.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0913836400 ISBN 13: 9780913836408

Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S., 1977

Synopsis

Now with New Cover. C.S. Lewis says of this fourth-century patristicmasterpiece on the Incarnation of Christ, '..only a mastermind could have written so deeply on such a subject with such classical simplicity.'

About this title

About the Author:

Athanasius of Alexandria (293–373), also given the titles Athanasius the Great, Pope Athanasius I of Alexandria, and Athanasius the Apostolic, was a Christian theologian, bishop of Alexandria, Church Father, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century. He is best remembered for his role in the conflict with Arius and Arianism. At the First Council of Nicaea, Athanasius argued against Arius and his doctrine that Christ is of a distinct substance from the Father. Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors in the Eastern Orthodox Christian tradition and is a Doctor of the Church in the Catholic Church. Athanasius is venerated as a Christian saint, whose feast day is 2 May in Western Christianity, 15 May in the Coptic Orthodox Church, and 18 January in the other Eastern Orthodox churches. Athanasius spent a good deal of his energy on polemical writings against his theological opponents. Examples include: Orations Against the Arians, his defence of the divinity of the Holy Spirit (Letters to Serapion in the 360s, and On the Holy Spirit) against Macedonianism and "On the Incarnation". Arguably his most read work is his biography of Anthony the Great entitled Vita Antonii, or Life of Antony. This biography depicts Anthony as an illiterate and holy man who through his existence in a primordial landscape has an absolute connection to the divine truth, which always is synonymous with that of Athanasius as the biographer. It later served as an inspiration to Christian monastics in both the East and the West. The so-called Athanasian Creed dates from well after Athanasius's death and draws upon the phraseology of Augustine's De trinitate. In Coptic literature St. Athanasius is the first patriarch of Alexandria to use Coptic, as well as Greek in his writings.

About this edition

• Publisher: St Vladimir's Seminary Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1977
• ISBN 10: 0913836400
• ISBN 13: 9780913836408
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 120