![]() ![]() Athanasius’s work remains even today the definitive statement of orthodox Trinitarianism.’Īthanasius was only about twenty-one years of age when he wrote this way back in the early 300’s AD. He opposed Arius when it seemed all the world would follow Arius’s heresy. ![]() ‘Athanasius stood contra mundum (“against the world”) in defense of the biblical doctrine of Christ. ![]() He was banished for the position he took by both Constantine the Great and his successor. After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC, Greek became the most common written language due to its widespread use in government, education and literature and On the Incarnation was originally written in that language.īishop of Alexandria for forty-five years, Athanasius opposed Arius and his followers, who denied the divinity of Christ, in the most intense debate of the 4th century. On the Incarnation was written over sixteen hundred years ago by Athanasius, a Patriarch and Saint of Alexander, Egypt. ![]()
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