Even in Athanasius ’ Orations against the Arians, Arius hardly emerges consistently as the creative individual originator of the heresy that bears his name, even though it would have greatly strengthened Athanasius ’ case to present him in that light.

Athanasius of Alexandria was traditionally thought to be the author of the Athanasian Creed, and gives his name to its common title.

St Gregory Nazianzen, fellow Doctor of the Church, 330-390, said in Or. 21: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

21 with: " When I praise Athanasius, virtue itself is my theme: for I name every virtue as often as I mention him who was possessed of all virtues.

* Eusebius of Nicomedia is made bishop of Constantinople while another Arian succeeds Athanasius as bishop of Alexandria under the name Gregory.

Athanasius of Alexandria explained that despite the fact that the followers of Paul of Samosata baptised in the name of the Trinity, they did not make it in the orthodox sense, making their baptism invalid.

He resigned his position as a general of the Georgian prince David III of Tao in c. 963 and, under the name of Ioane ( Ioannis, or John ), retired to Athanasius ’ Lavra on Mount Athos.

The pentagrammaton or Yahshuah () is a constructed form of the Hebrew name of Jesus found in the works of Athanasius Kirchner, Johann Baptist Grossschedel ( 1619 ) and other late renaissance esoteric sources.

Athanasius appointed Frumentius himself, who returned to Axum as Bishop with the name of Abune Selama.

Athanasius Kircher ( Musurgia universalis, 486 ) applied the name of chelys to a kind of viol with eight strings.

*# Maramon Palakunnathu Thomas Kassessa under the name Thomas Mar Athanasius as his successor on June 1, 1868.

St Athanasius seems to have been brought early in life under the immediate supervision of the ecclesiastical authorities of his native city.

Valens, who seems to have sincerely dreaded the possible consequences of a popular outbreak, gave orders within a few weeks for the return of Athanasius to his episcopal see.

Unfortunately, the emperor Constantius II seems to have been committed to having Athanasius deposed, and went so far as to send soldiers to arrest him.

This passage is entirely in irregular verse, and seems to be a direct quotation or a compilation of quotations ; it may have been written by someone other than Athanasius, perhaps even a person sympathetic to Arius.

But he seems not to have been reinstated in his see when Constantius II, threatened by his brother with war, allowed the restoration of Athanasius, and Paul of Constantinople to their sees in 345.

Athanasius may have accompanied Alexander to the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the council which produced the Nicene Creed and anathematized Arius and his followers.

Scholars have debated whether Athanasius ' list in 367 was the basis for the later lists.

The Arian party, as described by Athanasius, may not have existed in the form he portrayed in his writings.

Some argue that the view of Arianism that exists to this day among most Christians would not have existed were it not for Athanasius.

While Athanasius may have affected the general perception of Arianism, they say, his portrayal was polemical, not creative.

However, some modern scholars have argued that the demons and temptations that Anthony is reported to have faced may have been related to Athanasius by some of the simpler pilgrims who had visited him, who may have been conveying what they had been told in a manner more dramatic than it had been conveyed to them.

Successful recreations have been performed by Anthemius of Tralles ( 6th century AD ), Proclus ( 6th century ) ( who by this means purportedly destroyed the fleet of Vitellus besieging Constantinople ), Ibn Sahl in his On Burning Mirrors and Lenses ( 10th century ), Alhazen in his Book of Optics ( 1021 ), Roger Bacon ( 13th century ), Giambattista della Porta and his friends ( 16th century ), Athanasius Kircher and Gaspar Schott ( 17th century ), the Comte du Buffon in 1740 in Paris, Ioannis Sakas in the 1970s in Greece, and others.

Even if Athanasius and his companions were somewhat to blame, the letter runs, the Alexandrian Church should first have written to the pope.

He tries to have him arrested during a vigil service, but Athanasius flees to the Nitrian desert in Upper Egypt.

" Antonio de Lorea also argued for their existence, and Athanasius Kircher argued that compartments must have been built for them aboard Noah's Ark.

Scholars have speculated that the works were buried in response to a letter from Bishop Athanasius who for the first time declared a strict canon of Christian scripture.

In his " Introduction " to The Nag Hammadi Library in English, James Robinson suggests that these codices may have belonged to a nearby Pachomian monastery, and were buried after Bishop Athanasius condemned the use of non-canonical books in his Festal Letter of 367 AD.

It originally had 72 Byzantine and medieval churches, of which 54 have survived, including St Athanasius of Mouzaki.

Of the handful of fragments of his defence treatise that have survived, he refers to the doctrine and “ heresies of the Nicolaitan ;... most of all hated and abhorred of God himself ... the common received faith contained in those three inventions of man, commonly called the Three Creeds ... the, Nicene and Athanasius Creed, which faith within these 1600 years past hath prevailed in the world .”

Sozomen appears also to have consulted the Historia Athanasii and also the works of Athanasius including the Vita Antonii.

While Alexander had been priming Athanasius to assume the bishopric after his death, it is said, he was not unanimously supported, and questions of his age ( the minimum age to become a bishop was thirty, and questions remain to this day whether he was yet that old ).

The Creed, which is now recited throughout the Christian world, was based largely on the teaching put forth by a man who eventually would become Pope Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, the chief opponent of Arius.

In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave the earliest preserved list of exactly the books that would become the New Testament canon.

In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of the books that would become the twenty-seven-book NT canon, and he used the word " canonized " ( kanonizomena ) in regards to them.

In his Easter letter of 367, Athanasius, Bishop of Alexandria, gave a list of exactly the same books as what would become the New Testament canon, and he used the phrase " being canonized " ( kanonizomena ) in regards to them.

In the fourth century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word, and in the fifth century St Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons ' by participation ' ( Greek methexis ).

Also there were Eusebius of Caesarea, Eusebius of Nicomedia and the young deacon Athanasius, who would become the champion of the Trinitarian dogma ultimately adopted by the council and spend most of his life battling Arianism.

In the fourth century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word, and in the fifth century St Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons ' by participation ' ( Greek methexis ).

As Athanasius put it, God became human so that we might become divine ( De inc. 54, 3: PG 25, 192B.

In the fourth century, St. Athanasius repeats Irenaeus almost word for word, and in the fifth century St Cyril of Alexandria says that we shall become sons ' by participation ' ( Greek methexis ).

In the 4th century, Athanasius taught that God became Man that Man might become God.

The Eastern Christian tradition speaks of this transformation in terms of theosis or divinization, perhaps best summed up by an ancient aphorism usually attributed to Athanasius of Alexandria: " God became human so that man might become god.

Nikephoros had promised Athanasius that he would soon become a monk of Great Lavra but the circumstances and his death canceled those plans.

They cite Athanasius of Alexandria from his Incarnation of the Word: " Christ assumed humanity that we might become God.

By the time Anthony died in 356, thousands of monks and nuns had been drawn to living in the desert following Anthony's example — his biographer, Athanasius of Alexandria, wrote that " the desert had become a city.