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By any standard, this is a classic of Christian theology. Composed by St. Athanasius in the fourth century, it expounds with simplicity the theological vision defended at the councils of Nicaea and Constantinople: that the Son of God himself became “fully human, so that we might become god.” Its influence on all Christian theology thereafter, East and West, ensures its place as one of the few...

he created all things “by his Word our Savior Jesus Christ,” so that through likeness to him knowledge of their Creator might be granted to human beings; had they preserved this grace, receiving also thereby God’s “own power from the Paternal Word,” they might contemplate the Word and in him behold the Father. Ignorance, evil, and death, are therefore not part of God’s creation, but are brought into some kind of phantasmagorical existence when human beings turn from what is truly real to that which
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