St Athanasius the Great FOUR DISCOURSES AGAINST THE ARIANS, Part I, Complete

Translated by Cardinal Newman.

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Table of Contents of the Four Discourses.

The following Table of Contents of Orat. i-iii. (the contents of Orat. iv. will be tabulated at the end of Exc. C.) must be supplemented by the fuller headings prefixed to Newman's 'chapters.'

Orat. i. 1-4. Introductory.

i. 5-7. a. The Arian doctrine as represented in the 'Thalia.'

i. 8-10. b. Significance of the Controversy.

General Subject of the Discourses: The Sonship of Christ.

i. 11-13. The Divine Sonship: (1) Eternal

i. 14-16. (2) Though real, not like earthly Sonship.

i. 17-21. (3) The true Sonship.

i. 22-29. Objections to the above discussed.

i. 30-34. (4) On the term agenetos

i. 35, 36. (5) On the unchangeableness of the Son.

Orat. i. 37-iii. 58. (6) Discussion of controverted texts.

i. 37-64. Texts bearing on the exaltation of the Son (viz. Phil. ii. 9; Ps. xlv. 7, 8; Heb. i. 4).

(Excursus B. On the Arian formula prin gennethenai ouk en.)

ii. 1-82. b. Texts bearing on the 'creation' of the Son (viz. Heb. iii. 2; Acts ii. 36; Prov. viii. 22; the latter occupying S:S:18-82).

iii. 1-25. g. Texts from the Fourth Gospel on the relation of the Son to the Father.

iii. 26-58. d. Texts bearing more directly on the Incarnation (Matt. xxviii. 18; Joh. iii. 35; Mark xiii. 32, Luke ii. 52, human knowledge, &c., of Christ, S:S:42-53; Matt. xxvi. 39, &c.).

iii. 58-67. (7) The Divine Sonship in relation to the Divine Will.

[1820] Not that he was willing to suppress the term and surrender the Nicene cause, far from it; but he sees the relative importance of things and words. This shews the absurdity of the taunt, that the Nicene theologians fought ferociously over a single 'iota.'

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