“Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”: Biblical Exegesis and Polemical Intertextuality in Athanasius’s Orations against the Arians. Anatolios, K. Journal of early Christian studies, 21(4):503–535, 2013. Place: BALTIMORE Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
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Three times in the Orations against the Arians, Athanasius quotes from Asterius's exegesis of 1 Cor 1.24. In this paper, I show how Athanasius extracts four motifs from this discussion, and uses them to distinguish his own doctrinal position from Asterius, Marcellus, and Eusebius of Caesarea: the eternity of the Son; the Son's being as "proper to the essence of the Father"; the co-existence of Father and Son; and the generativity of the divine nature. Athanasius hides this complex engagement in order to achieve a polemical simplification of the post-Nicene debates into the binary framework of "orthodoxy" vs. "heresy."
@article{anatolios_christ_2013,
	title = {“{Christ} the {Power} and {Wisdom} of {God}”: {Biblical} {Exegesis} and {Polemical} {Intertextuality} in {Athanasius}’s {Orations} against the {Arians}},
	volume = {21},
	issn = {1067-6341},
	shorttitle = {“{Christ} the {Power} and {Wisdom} of {God}”},
	doi = {10.1353/earl.2013.0044},
	abstract = {Three times in the Orations against the Arians, Athanasius quotes from Asterius's exegesis of 1 Cor 1.24. In this paper, I show how Athanasius extracts four motifs from this discussion, and uses them to distinguish his own doctrinal position from Asterius, Marcellus, and Eusebius of Caesarea: the eternity of the Son; the Son's being as "proper to the essence of the Father"; the co-existence of Father and Son; and the generativity of the divine nature. Athanasius hides this complex engagement in order to achieve a polemical simplification of the post-Nicene debates into the binary framework of "orthodoxy" vs. "heresy."},
	language = {eng},
	number = {4},
	journal = {Journal of early Christian studies},
	author = {Anatolios, Khaled},
	year = {2013},
	note = {Place: BALTIMORE
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press},
	keywords = {300-399, Apologia contra Arianos, Arianism, Arts \& Humanities, Athanasius, \$cSaint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373, Athanasius, Saint(d. 373), Bible, Council of Nicaea, Divinity, Egyptian literature, Greek language literature, History, Intertextuality, Jesus Christ, Religion, biblical exegesis, polemics, prose},
	pages = {503--535},
}

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