c. AD 296 – 373
Athanasius of Alexandria
The central defender of Nicene faith through decades of exile; his Festal Letter of 367 lists the twenty-seven books of the New Testament exactly as received today.
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- Location
- Alexandria
- Role
- Bishop of Alexandria; Doctor of the Church
- Major writings
- On the Incarnation; Orations Against the Arians; Life of Antony; Festal Letter 39
- Teachings
- The full divinity of the Son
- Salvation as deification through the incarnate Word
- Connection to apostolic Christianity
- He argued that Nicaea expressed nothing new but the faith the apostles handed on.
Quotations with references
“He became what we are that he might make us what he is.”
Sources and References
- Athanasius, On the Incarnationnewadvent.org