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Document Details : Title: 'When the Most Blessed Athanasius was Opposing the Arians' (Ep. 148.2.10) Subtitle: The Defense of the Nicene Faith Refracted through an Augustinian Lens Author(s): BUCUR, Bogdan G. Journal: Ephemerides Theologicae Lovanienses Volume: 100 Issue: 2 Date: 2024 Pages: 305-322 DOI: 10.2143/ETL.100.2.3293346 Abstract : In a short passage in his Ep. 148, Augustine states that, in defense of the Nicene faith, Athanasius had argued that God allows himself to be seen in biblical theophanies 'by assuming a creature'. The article shows that this view is a distortion of Athanasius’ polemical strategies against Arianism, and that, in an effort to establish the credibility of his views, Augustine was, in fact, 'manufacturing' his famous predecessors’ consent to a fundamentally novel conception of visio Dei. |
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