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Original Sin 14 – The Two Natures of Christ

By Scott | Published: March 9, 2010
Whether through the hands of another human being, in the narrative text of the Holy Scriptures, or through some sense of direct connection, it has always been Jesus of Nazareth, called the Christ, who draws me toward Christianity and who keeps me circling in a whirlpool of love with Jesus at its center. But I [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 49 – Christ Conquers All Gods

By Scott | Published: November 4, 2009
As always, read the whole section by Athanasius. But I want to focus on his last thought in it. Or why, if Christ is, as they say, a man, and not God the Word, is not His worship prevented by the gods they have from passing into the same land where they are? Or why [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 42 – Union with Man Related to His Union with Creation

By Scott | Published: October 18, 2009
Athanasius continues his argument against the Greek neo-platonists of his day in this section of his treatise. As I read this section, it struck me again how our situations are largely reversed today from that of Athanasius. Unlike the Jews, the pagan believers had relatively little difficulty with the idea of the Logos or Word [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 41 – The Logos Refutes the Pagan Greeks

By Scott | Published: October 14, 2009
In this section, Athanasius turns from refuting the arguments against the Incarnation by the Jews to those offered by the pagan Greeks. He is specifically attacking the schools of Plato, whether influenced by Philo or not. Platonism had issues with embodied spirituality. Within that perspective, the material was something to be escaped. Plato envisioned the [...]
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On the Incarnation of the Word 2 – Erroneous Views of Creation Rejected

By Scott | Published: August 25, 2009
In the next section, Athanasius briefly considers and rejects erroneous views of Creation. Two examples follow that always catch my eye. For some say that all things have come into being of themselves, and in a chance fashion; as, for example, the Epicureans, who tell us in their self-contempt, that universal providence does not exist, [...]
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