“Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”: Biblical Exegesis and Polemical Intertextuality in Athanasius’s Orations against the Arians
Three times in the Orations against the Arians, Athanasius quotes from Asterius’s exegesis of 1 Cor 1.24. In this paper, I show how Athanasius extracts four motifs from this discussion, and uses them to distinguish his own doctrinal position from Asterius, Marcellus, and Eusebius of Caesarea: the et...
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Language: | English |
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Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2013
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Journal of early Christian studies
Year: 2013, Volume: 21, Issue: 4, Pages: 503-535 |
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Summary: | Three times in the Orations against the Arians, Athanasius quotes from Asterius’s exegesis of 1 Cor 1.24. In this paper, I show how Athanasius extracts four motifs from this discussion, and uses them to distinguish his own doctrinal position from Asterius, Marcellus, and Eusebius of Caesarea: the eternity of the Son; the Son’s being as “proper to the essence of the Father”; the co-existence of Father and Son; and the generativity of the divine nature. Athanasius hides this complex engagement in order to achieve a polemical simplification of the post-Nicene debates into the binary framework of “orthodoxy” vs. “heresy.” |
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ISSN: | 1086-3184 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of early Christian studies
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/earl.2013.0044 |