Church Father
"Athanasius contra mundum — the man who stood alone against emperors and bishops to preserve the doctrine of the full divinity of Christ"
Athanasius attended the Council of Nicaea in AD 325 as a young deacon and became Bishop of Alexandria at around thirty. For the next forty-five years his episcopate was defined by the struggle to preserve the Nicene definition — that the Son is of the same substance (homoousios) as the Father. He was exiled five times by four different emperors — seventeen years total. His Festal Letter of AD 367 is the first surviving list of the 27-book New Testament canon.
"He was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father."
"Let no one add to these; let nothing be taken away from these. In these alone the teaching of godliness is proclaimed."
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