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The Fatherhood of God from Origen to Athanasius

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by Peter Widdicombe (assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

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      Peter Widdicombe (assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Oxford University Press

    • Published

      November 2000

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      The fatherhood of God has a central, if increasingly controversial, place in Christian thinking about God. Yet although Christians referred to God as Father from the earliest days of the faith, it was not until Athanasius in the fourth century that the idea of God as Father became a topic of sustained analysis. Looking at the genesis of Athansius' understanding of divine fatherhood against the background of the Alexandrian tradition, Dr Widdicombe demonstrates how the concept came to occupy such a prominent place in Christian theology. He argues that there is a continuity in the Alexandrian tradition which runs from Origen to Athanasius, and shows how in the detail of their language and in the structure of their arguments, the third and fourth century Alexandrians drew on Origen's portrayal of God as Father. For Origen, the fatherhood of God lay at the heart of the Christian faith: to know God fully and thus to be saved is to know God as Father.For Athanasius, the fatherhood of God was integral to the defence of the divinity of the Son against the Arian challenge: Fatherhood identified God as the loving and fruitful source of all things and as the one who has sought to meet us in his Son Jesus Christ. Arius, however, was an important exception, and for him it was logically possible to refer to God without calling him Father. In the context of modern debates about describing God as Father, this illuminating examination of early Christian thinking will help us to consider whether it is either desirable or possible to call God Father if we are to maintain an intelligible doctrine of God.

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      • Author

        Peter Widdicombe (assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Oxford University Press

      • Published

        November 2000

      • Edition

        New edition

      • Weight

        405g

      • Page Count

        313

      • Dimensions

        14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

      • ISBN

        9780199242481

      • ISBN-10

        0199242488

      • Eden Code

        1147314

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      • Author/Creator: Peter Widdicombe (assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Assistant Professor In The Department Of Religious Studies, Mcmaster University, Hamilton, Ontario)

      • ISBN: 9780199242481

      • Publisher: Oxford University Press

      • Release Date: November 2000

      • Weight: 405g

      • Dimensions: 14 x 21.6 x 1.9 cm

      • Eden Code: 1147314

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