Athanasiuss Discourses Against The Arians
Definition
The underlying soteriological stake: if the Son is a creature, He cannot deify; hence Athanasius’s insistence that only a fully divine Saviour can preserve the unity and integrity of the Christian faith and one God/one Saviour preaching.
Episodes
Related Concepts
- Theosisdeification Implicit In The Arian Controversy
Biblical References
- Colossians 1:15 — * He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation, *
- Isaiah 53:8 — *He was led away after an unjust trial— but who even cared? Indeed, he was cut off from the land of the living; because of the rebellion of his own people he was wounded. *
- John 14:28 — You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father because the Father is greater than I am.
- Hebrews 13:4 — *Marriage must be honored among all and the marriage bed kept undefiled, for God will judge sexually immoral people and adulterers. *