Select Works and Letters (NPNF Series II, Vol. IV)
- Language:
- English
- Status:
- Selection or partial work
- Authorship:
- Written by the author
- Condition of the text:
- Clean text · 19 illegible passages, excluded from answers
- Extent:
- ~820,000 words · 3,889 passages
Cite this work
- APAAthanasius. (n.d.). Select Works and Letters (NPNF Series II, Vol. IV). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/athanasius/select-works-and-letters-npnf-series-ii-vol-iv
- MLAAthanasius. "Select Works and Letters (NPNF Series II, Vol. IV)." SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/en/works/athanasius/select-works-and-letters-npnf-series-ii-vol-iv.
- ChicagoAthanasius. Select Works and Letters (NPNF Series II, Vol. IV). SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/en/works/athanasius/select-works-and-letters-npnf-series-ii-vol-iv.
What it is about
Selected works and letters of Athanasius: the orations against the Arians, the treatise on the incarnation, and the Life of Antony.
Context and history
Athanasius was bishop of Alexandria through the Arian crisis and was exiled five times for refusing to give way on whether the Son is of the same substance as the Father. The Life of Antony had a career of its own: translated into Latin at once, it carried Egyptian monasticism into the West, and Augustine relates in the Confessions that hearing of it was one of the shocks that led him to conversion.
Editorial context, not a citable source: unlike the passages of the work itself, these statements cannot be checked against the corpus.
In preparing the present volume the Editor has aimed at providing the English reader with the most complete apparatus for the study of Athanasius, his life, and his theological influence, which could be brought within the compass ofa single volume of the ‘ Nicene and Post-Nicene Library.’ The volume contains all the most important treatises of Athanasius (in as nearly as possible their exact chronological order), with the exception of the ad Serapionem, the contra Apollinarium, the ad Marcellinum, and the exegetical remains. On these and other treatises omitted from the present collection the reader is referred to the Pro legomena, ch. iil. : : aate: ae A great part of the volume, including the bulk of the historical and anti-Arian works, and the Festal Letters, consists.of a revision of translations and notes comprised in the Oxford Library of the Fathers. The notes to all, and the translation of most, of the works in question, excepting the Festal Letters, were prepared for that series by Mr. (since Cardinal)
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