PAST EVENT

This seminar will be led by Dr. DeMasi.

In the fourth century, the Christian world was violently divided over the issue of Christ’s divinity. Was Christ coeternal with the Father--of the same substance as the Almighty God? Or was Christ an instrument--created for our redemption-the first born of God’s works? At one point, not only the emperor, but most of the Christian world believed that “there once was a time when he [Christ] was not.” In this seminar, we uncover the reasoning behind this heresy--the Arian heresy--and we look at the response from the fiery, red-haired, very short, Bishop Athanasius, who almost single-handedly defeated the tidal wave of Arian belief.

Reading: Athanasius – Orationes contra Arianos, “Four Discourses Against the Arians,” (Selections).