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“Who do you say that I am?” This question that Jesus asked of his disciples, so central to his mission, became equally central to the fledgling church. How would it respond to the Gnostics who answered by saying Jesus was less than fully human? How would it respond to the Arians who contended he was less than fully God? It was these challenges that ultimately provoked the Council of Nicaea in...

sons of God on account of their regeneration or of their merit, and not on account of their being of one hypostasis97 with the Father, as is the Son. THEODORET ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 2.8.42–43.98 THE SON IS ALWAYS LIGHT FROM LIGHT. GREGORY OF NYSSA: And if the Son, always appearing with the thought of the Father, is always found in the category of existence, what danger is there in owning the eternity of the Only-Begotten, who “has neither beginning of days nor end of life.”99 For as he is Light
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