Athanasius

How To Use Athanasius In A Sentence

• The victory of the Trinitarians in England in the latter half of the seventeenth century was not only as complete, but also as extraordinary, as St. Athanasius’s original triumph.
• Yet, as Athanasius and his cobelligerents knew, Christianity itself hung upon the debate with the Arians.
• He sought in what time precisely the creed attributed to the apostles was digested, and that which bears the name of Athanasius; how the sacraments were instituted one after the other; what was the difference between synaxis and mass; how the Christian Church was divided since its origin into different parties, and how the predominating society treated all the others as heretics. A Philosophical Dictionary
• Scheiner, and Secchi are famous as astronomers; Athanasius Kircher was a polyhistor in the best sense of the term; Hardouin, though frequently hypercritical and eccentric, was a most acute critic and in many ways far in advance of his age; Petavius was the father of the historical treatment of dogma and a leader in chronology; and the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
• The largest and most valuable, had I been sensible of such things was a book of marvels by "the most miraculous mystagogue of nature": China monumentis, qua sacris quà profanis, nec non variis naturae & artis spectaculis, aliarumque rerum memorabilium argumentis illustrata, by Athanasius Kircher. Kitai
• Saint Athanasius used the term "ever virgin" to refer to Mary, and this view was apparent accepted by the Fathers of the Church from the 5th century on.
• Yet, as Athanasius and his cobelligerents knew, Christianity itself hung upon the debate with the Arians.
• All complaints are lodged with Father Athanasius, who has to find a solution mutually agreeable to both parties.
• It is curious how little interest even Athanasius shows in the Unity of the Trinity, which he scarcely mentions except when quoting the Dionysii; it is Didymus and the Cappadocians who word Trinitarian doctrine in the manner since consecrated by the centuries -- three hypostases, one usia; but this is merely the conventional translation of the ancient Latin formula, though it was new to the East. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• So many were seduced by the Arian heresy that St Athanasius, who championed the Creed at Nicea, famously said, ‘The floor of hell is paved with the skulls of bishops.’