'When the Most Blessed Athanasius was Opposing the Arians' ( Ep. 148.2.10): The Defense of the Nicene Faith Refracted through an Augustinian Lens
In a short passage in his Ep. 148, Augustine states that, in defense of the Nicene faith, Athanasius had argued that God allows himself to be seen in biblical theophanies 'by assuming a creature'. The article shows that this view is a distortion of Athanasius’ polemical strategies against...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2024
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Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
Year: 2024, Volume: 100, Issue: 2, Pages: 305-322 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint 354-430
/ Athanasius Alexandrinus 295-373
/ Symbolum Nicaenum
/ Theophany
/ Vision of God
/ Arianism
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| IxTheo Classification: | CB Christian life; spirituality KAB Church history 30-500; early Christianity NBA Dogmatics NBB Doctrine of Revelation |
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| Summary: | In a short passage in his Ep. 148, Augustine states that, in defense of the Nicene faith, Athanasius had argued that God allows himself to be seen in biblical theophanies 'by assuming a creature'. The article shows that this view is a distortion of Athanasius’ polemical strategies against Arianism, and that, in an effort to establish the credibility of his views, Augustine was, in fact, 'manufacturing' his famous predecessors’ consent to a fundamentally novel conception of visio Dei. |
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| ISSN: | 1783-1423 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Ephemerides theologicae Lovanienses
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2143/ETL.100.2.3293346 |