On the Incarnation and The Life of Antony

He was made man that we might be made God.

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About this edition

Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373) stood almost alone in his generation as the defender of the full divinity of the Son of God, and for that cause he was five times driven into exile. This volume gathers the two sides of his one labour: the doctrine he defended, and the holiness that doctrine makes possible.

On the Incarnation of the Word, written in his youth, is the classic account of why God was made man: that the Word through whom all things were made should take a body like ours, to restore the divine image in us and to conquer death from within. It is the book in which he set down the words for which he is best remembered, that He was made man that we might be made God.

The Life of Antony, written after the great hermit had died, is the portrait of that same faith lived out. Antony heard the Gospel read in church, sold all that he had, and went into the Egyptian desert; and the Life that Athanasius made of him became the seed of Christian monasticism throughout the world.

This Sanctified Souls Press edition gives both works complete, in the public-domain English of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers. Newly set on cream paper, for reading and keeping.

Details

• Saint Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373), Bishop of Alexandria, Father and Doctor of the Church
• Translated by Archibald Robertson and H. Ellershaw, in the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, 1892
• Two complete works: On the Incarnation of the Word in fifty-seven sections, and The Life of Antony entire, with its salutation and prologue
• Sanctified Souls, Heritage Editions · Saint Athanasius
• Paperback and hardcover, 6 × 9, 130 pages, cream paper

Cover: a Renaissance-style relief of the Virgin and Child, Carrara marble with gilding, nineteenth century; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Public domain.