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Athanasius: source notes

Athanasius: source notes

Works: On the Incarnation. Edition/translation: NPNF² vol. 4, as on New Advent.

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S1: On the Incarnation 54.3

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm
  • Text: “For He was made man that we might be made God”.
  • Context: Salvation is framed as incarnation, restoration and deification. The treatise does not develop a doctrine of justification. That absence is itself evidence for how the Greek fathers framed salvation (the Orthodox frame).
  • Bears on: Q1
  • Status: verified (English)

Topic: atonement

See atonement reasoning.

ATN S1: On the Incarnation 8.4

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm
  • Text: “because all were under penalty of the corruption of death He gave it over to death in the stead of all, and offered it to the Father … to the end that, firstly, all being held to have died in Him, the law involving the ruin of men might be undone … and that, secondly, whereas men had turned toward corruption, He might turn them again toward incorruption”. Also 7.4: “to maintain intact the just claim of the Father upon all”.
  • Context: Substitution, the law satisfied, and restoration, all together.
  • Bears on: A3, A4, A2
  • Status: verified (English)

Topic: original-sin

See original-sin reasoning.

OSN S1: On the Incarnation 4.4–5

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm
  • Text: “received the condemnation of death with which they had been threatened; and from thenceforth no longer remained as they were made, but were being corrupted … For transgression of the commandment was turning them back to their natural state”.
  • Context: The fall is presented as corruption and death (φθορά). It does not speak of guilt transferred.
  • Bears on: O1, O2
  • Status: verified (English)

Topic: scripture-and-tradition

See scripture-and-tradition reasoning.

SCT S1: Festal Letter 39.6

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2806039.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
  • Text: “These are fountains of salvation, that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain.”
  • Context: After listing the canonical books.
  • Bears on: C1
  • Status: verified (English)

SCT S2: Festal Letter 39.6

SCT S3: Festal Letter 39.7

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2806039.htm (NPNF/ANF English translation)
  • Text: “But for greater exactness I add this also, writing of necessity; that there are other books besides these not indeed included in the Canon, but appointed by the Fathers to be read by those who newly join us, and who wish for instruction in the word of godliness.”
  • Context: Two tiers: canonical books, and books read for instruction (Wisdom, Sirach, Esther, Judith, Tobit, Didache, Hermas).
  • Bears on: C2
  • Status: verified (English)

Doctrine S12

See S12 reasoning.

S12 S1: On the Incarnation 7

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “For being Word of the Father, and above all, He alone of natural fitness was both able to recreate everything, and worthy to suffer on behalf of all and to be ambassador for all with the Father.”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: S12.1
  • Status: verified (English)

S12 S2: On the Incarnation 20

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “And so it was that two marvels came to pass at once, that the death of all was accomplished in the Lord’s body, and that death and corruption were wholly done away by reason of the Word that was united with it.”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: S12.1
  • Status: verified (English)

Doctrine T18

See T18 reasoning.

T18 S1: On the Incarnation 54.3

  • Source: https://www.newadvent.org/fathers/2802.htm (public-domain English translation)
  • Text: “For 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; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.”
  • Context:
  • Bears on: T18.1
  • Status: verified (English)