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Atonement in “On the Incarnation of the Word”

July 30, 2018 Maged M 2 Comments

Some argue that St. Athanasius never explained redemption in terms of satisfaction of a “debt”, but only of God’s healing…

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Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: On the Incarnation of the Word, Penal Substitution, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, St. Athanasius, Substitutionary Atonement, Theories of atonement

Reconciliation of the Theories of Atonement of the East & West

October 17, 2017 Bishop Raphael 2 Comments

Taken from the lecture “The Incarnation According to St. Athanasius”, by H.G. Bishop Raphael (Former Secretary of the Coptic Holy…

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Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: atonement, Incarnation, Incarnation of the Word, Penal Substitution and Church Fathers, Penal Substitution Patristics, Reasons for Incarnation, St. Athanasius, Theories of atonement

Six Reasons for the Incarnation

Bishop Raphael 2 Comments

Taken from the lecture “The Incarnation According to St. Athanasius”, by H.G. Bishop Raphael (Former Secretary of the Coptic Holy…

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Posted in: Patristics, Salvation Filed under: Incarnation, Incarnation of the Word, Reasons for Incarnation, redemption, Soteriology, St. Athanasius

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