athanasius in English

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Athanasius of Alexandria (293-373), bishop of Alexandria and saint, Egyptian-born Greek bishop who opposed Arianism and defended Christian orthodoxy against Arianism

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1. 6 St Athanasius, fleeing the unrighteous , was asked if he had seen the traitor Athanasius.

2. Saint Athanasius the Athonite, also called Athanasius Of Trebizond, (born c

3. Athanasius, the Athonite, founded a monastery there.’

4. Athanasius, the Athonite, founded a monastery there.’

5. Athonite, "of/from/related to Athos ", may mean: Athanasius the Athonite

6. Well-informed scholars agree, however, that Athanasius did not compose this creed.

7. Indeed, in the course of his dispute with the Arians, Athanasius suffered five Banishments

8. Pope Peter-Athanasius II, who lives, according to different sources, in Brussels or in Canada.

9. From all the Armenian language anaphoras the only one currently in use is the anaphora of Athanasius of Alexandria.

10. Argues that Arianism as traditionally understood is largely a polemical construction created by Athanasius, and is an unsatisfactory concept for historical research

11. 26 Having elaborated on the names and designations of the Spirit's work in the Scriptures, Athanasius now focuses on the scriptural patterns of correlating the Spirit and the Son.

12. Books shelved as Christology: On the Incarnation by Athanasius of Alexandria, The Passion of Jesus Christ by John Piper, The Cross of Christ by John R.W.

13. At least five times - during the 30 years between 336 and 366 A.D. - Athanasius was obliged to abandon his city, spending 17 years in exile and suffering for the faith.

14. Chief among them were Athanasius, the assertive bishop of Alexandria, and three church leaders from Cappadocia, Asia Minor —Basil the Great, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus.

15. In all likelihood Athanasius was born in Alexandria, Egypt, in about the year 300 A.D. He received a good education before becoming a deacon and secretary to the Bishop of Alexandria, the great Egyptian metropolis.

16. Athanasius, the two Gregories, Basil, and Epiphanius combated the Apollinarian error, but with a certain embarrassment, attacking it rather from behind and from the flank, than in front, and unprepared to answer duly its main point, that two integral persons cannot form one