Later Treatises of S. Athanasius, Archbishop of Alexandria, with Notes; and an Appendix on S. Cyril of Alexandria and Theodoret (Biblia.com)

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Addressing a variety of ecclesiastical, theological, and pastoral issues, Athanasius’ Later Treatises provides readers with a larger window into Athanasius’ life, thought, and ministry. Here we see the great Christian endeavoring to make peace with former adversaries, instructing his parishioners in the faith, and standing as strong as ever in Nicene orthodoxy. Unlike his theologically motivated...

to a separate human person: it was Nestorius’s absurd remark, that our Lord said, “He who eateth My Flesh,” not, “He who eateth My Godheadq,” which constrained me to show that His Flesh was “proper to the Word.” Let us not, he adds, complain of the vastness of the Condescension, but recognise the body of Christ, in Athanasius’s language, as the Body of the Incarnate Word. He disclaims the notion that it came down from heaven, as unsupported by the words of S. John 3:13. Theodoret, he observes, might

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