St. Athanasius: The Father of Orthodoxy

Saint Athanasius is a rather straight-forward hagiographical biography of the great Alexandrian archbishop who battled the Arians and their Byzantine political allies for most of his life and somehow managed to outlast them. Beginning with the famous story of how a young Athanasius was spotted on the shore playing mock-baptism with his friends, the book continues to follow his carrier as a deacon defending the faith at Nicaea to his initial appointment as Archbishop of Alexandria when he was barely thirty. The rest of the book is taken up with his adventures as archbishop, opposing emperors and enduring persecution and exile for much of his reign. The book mostly focuses on his deeds and not on his writings, but it crams in a lot for a show more book under one hundred pages.

An inspiring work about an inspiring man. Highly recommended for anyone looking for a good biography of Saint Athanasius or inspirational biography in general. show less