%0 Journal Article %1 anatolios_christ_2013 %A Anatolios, Khaled %D 2013 %J Journal of Early Christian Studies %K Asterius Athanasius Or. %N 4 %P 503--535 %T “Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”: Biblical Exegesis and Polemical Intertextuality in Athanasius’s Orations against the Arians %V 21 %X 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, 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.”}, added-at = {2013-12-27T14:34:36.000+0100}, author = {Anatolios, Khaled}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24442aa4f93c80efd9b244c460f0c3439/avs}, file = {Anatolios_2013_“Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”.pdf:/Users/stockhausen/Sync/Bibliographie/storage/NF5H8ARH/Anatolios_2013_“Christ the Power and Wisdom of God”.pdf:application/pdf}, interhash = {e0a4d67a65886b83150f6ce45d735707}, intrahash = {4442aa4f93c80efd9b244c460f0c3439}, issn = {1086-3184}, journal = {Journal of Early Christian Studies}, keywords = {Asterius Athanasius Or.}, number = 4, pages = {503--535}, shorttitle = {{“Christ} the Power and Wisdom of God”}, timestamp = {2013-12-27T14:34:36.000+0100}, title = {{“Christ} the Power and Wisdom of God”: Biblical Exegesis and Polemical Intertextuality in Athanasius’s Orations against the Arians}, volume = 21, year = 2013 }