Questions on Athanasius
These are questions to accompany Athanasius's work, De Incarnatione
Verbi Dei (On the Incarnation).
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- How does he use the word group logos/logiken (word, reasonable)? (1-6)
- At the beginning, what is "the first fact you must grasp", and why is it first? (1,13)
- What is (in this teaching) the difference between men and animals? (3,11)
- How does sin corrupt our nature? Are we mortal by nature? What is "mortal"? (4,5)
- What will a relationship with the Eternal Word do for us and to us? (3-5,10,13,16)
- Why cannot we choose to return to holiness if by choice we left it? (7)
- Why has death lost its sting for those in Christ? How was this done? (9,10)
- What is the purpose of human reason? (4,5,11)
- "You cannot put straight in others what is warped in yourself." Explain and apply. (14)
- What's the purpose of the human body? (8,17)
- "He sanctified the body by being in it." Explain, apply. (18)