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Loading... On the Incarnation: The Treatise De Incarnatione Verbi Deiby AthanasiusSeries: Popular Patristics (4)
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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. http://quettandil.blogspot.com/2009/0... (  ) quettandil | Jun 19, 2009 |  Glorious! ianclary | Mar 7, 2008 | Athanasius is the Father of Orthodoxy in many ways, and this is his magnum opus. For students of historical theology, this is a must. For students of Orthodox Christianity, this is important. I am not sure I would recommend to the run of the mill church goer, partially because the issues Athanasius raises may seem remote to the issues facing today's church. In fact, this book MADE today's church, and that fact that we take so much of what he says for granted shows how deeply he influenced us. (  ) Arctic-Stranger | Jan 24, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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"This is a good translation of a very great book.
"St Athanasius stood contra mundum for the Trinitarian doctrine 'whole and undefiled,' when it looked as if all the civilized world was slipping back from Christianity into the religion of Arius, into one of those 'sensible' synthetic religions which are so strongly recommended today and which then, as now, included among their devotees many highly cultivated clergymen. The glory of St Athanasius is that he did not move with the times; it is his reward that he now remains when those times, like all others, have passed away.
"When I first opened De Incarnatione I soon discovered by a very simple test that I was reading a masterpiece, for only a mastermind could have written so deeply on such a subject with such classical simplicity"
- C. S. Lewis, from the Introduction(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:19 -0400)
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