By David M. Gwynn

ISBN-10: 0199205558

ISBN-13: 9780199205554

A old and theological re-examination of the polemical writings of Athanasius of Alexandria (bishop 328-73), who might turn into recognized to later Christian generations as a saint and a champion of orthodoxy, and because the defender of the unique Nicene Creed of 325 opposed to the `Arian heresy'. for far of his personal lifetime, although, Athanasius was once an exceptionally debatable determine, and his writings, even though hugely influential on smooth interpretations of the
fourth-century Church and the so-called `Arian Controversy', reveal bias and distortion. David M. Gwynn examines Athanasius' polemic intimately, and specifically his development of these he condemns as `Arian' as a unmarried `heretical party', 'the Eusebians'. Gwynn argues that Athanasius' photo of the Church
polarized among his personal `orthodoxy' and the `Arianism' of the `Eusebians' is a polemical build, which has heavily impaired our wisdom of the advance of Christianity within the an important interval during which the Later Roman Empire turned ever more and more a Christian empire.

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