Who
Deacon at the Council of Nicaea in 325, bishop of Alexandria from 328 and exiled five times for defending the Son's full divinity against the Arians. On the Incarnation of the Word, the Orations Against the Arians, the Life of Antony and the Festal Letters (the letter of 367 gives the first complete list of the New Testament canon) are his chief works. He calls Mary Theotokos as a matter of course and holds her up to the virgins of Alexandria as the model of their life.
Lineage
In the succession →See of Alexandria, 328–373.
- Taught by
- Alexander of Alexandriad. 328
Sozomen, Church History II.17; Athanasius was his deacon and secretary at Nicaea
- Succeeded
Contents
In Jewish Roots of Mary
Who
Bishop of Alexandria and the great defender of the divinity of Christ at and after Nicaea; also the first to list the twenty-seven books of the New Testament. Pitre stresses that Protestants revere him, and that his statements about Mary come from his defence of Christ.
Quoted works
- Homily from the Papyrus of Turin — 'O Ark of the New Covenant, clothed with purity instead of gold! You are the Ark in which is found the golden vessel containing the true manna, that is, the flesh in which divinity resides' (p 61)
- Against the Arians 3.29 — one of the first indisputable uses of 'Mother of God' (Theotokos) — inside a treatise defending Jesus' divinity (p 82)
- Against the Arians — Theotokos connected to Isaiah's prophecy of Immanuel (p 84)
- On Virginity — 'If she had had other children, the Savior would not have ignored them and entrusted his Mother to someone else' (p 113)
Quoted in
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Festal Letters · Personal Letters · …
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Luke 1:11–14 · Luke 1:34–35 · Luke 1:48 · Luke 10:17–20 · Luke 10:21–22 · …
Discourse I · Discourse II · Discourse III · Discourse IV · …
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