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John Henry Newman was on the translation team for the collected works of Athanasius that appear in volume four of Philip Schaff's Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Newman's familiarity with the writings of Athanasius gave him great insight into the historical context of the Arian Controversies. Newman's survey of Arianism during the fourth century begins with a systematic overview of each major...

Catholic adversaries. Towards the Catholics, on the other hand, it stood thus:—it was willing to ascribe to the Son all that is commonly attributed to Almighty God, His name, authority, and power; all but the incommunicable nature, or οὐσία; i. e. all but that which alone could give Him a right to these titles of honour in a real and literal sense:—Now, to turn to the arguments, by which the heresy defended itself, or rather attacked the Church.
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