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    Athanasius, Ontology, & the Work of Christ
    Athanasius, Ontology, & the Work of Christ
    Athanasius, Ontology, & the Work of Christ
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    Athanasius, Ontology, & the Work of Christ

    By Hiram R. Diaz III

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    Athanasius of Alexandria, the famous defender of the doctrine of the Trinity, has recently been co-opted by contemporary annihilationists.

    But was he an annihilationist?

    In this work, three writers answer this question in the negative, showing from church history, contemporary Athanasian scholarship, and the writings of Athanasius himself that the father was not in any way an annihilationist.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherScripturalist Publications
    Release dateFeb 18, 2019
    ISBN9781386905370
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      Athanasius, Ontology, & the Work of Christ - Hiram R. Diaz III

      Hiram R. Diaz III

      Athanasius, Ontology, & The Work of Christ

      First published by Scripturalist Publications 2019

      Copyright © 2019 by Hiram R. Diaz III

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise without written permission from the publisher. It is illegal to copy this book, post it to a website, or distribute it by any other means without permission.

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      Contents

      Preface

      §I. Revisiting the Past

      §II. Reclaiming the Past

      §III. Some Technical Remarks

      The Patristic Doctrine

      §I. Were the Early Fathers Annihilationists?

      §II. The Early Fathers’ Actual Doctrine

      Justin Martyr

      Clement of Rome

      Polycarp

      Mathetes

      The Epistle of Barnabas

      Ignatius of Antioch

      Theophilus of Antioch

      Irenaeus of Lyons

      §III. Concluding Remarks

      Athanasius, Ontology, & The Work of Christ

      §I. Rethinking Church History?

      §II. Being and Nothingness

      Ontology and Anthropology in Athanasius’ Theology

      §IIa. Athanasius & Plato

      Being, and Non-Being

      §III. The [Universal] Work of Christ

      Universal Salvation from Nothingness

      §IV. The [Particular] Work of Christ

      Particular Salvation from Estrangement from God

      §V. Concluding Remarks

      Athanasius on Future Punishment

      §I. The Importance of Athanasius’ Thought

      §II. The Immortality of All Souls

      §III. The Immortality of All Bodies

      §IV. The Coherence of Athanasius’ Thought

      §V. Concluding Remarks

      Notes

      About the Author

      Also by Hiram R. Diaz III

      Preface

      §I. Revisiting the Past

      The old adage history repeats itself is perhaps no more obviously true than when we consider church history. What we see occur in many cases is, sadly, the gradual taking for granted of orthodox doctrine and the church’s subsequent struggle to address an unorthodox doctrine that has been brewing the minds of many who name Christ as their Lord. For some professing Christians, the inability to defend the truth against falsehoods is a result of laziness. However, this is not the case for everyone who finds themselves struggling to articulate how their doctrine is true, biblically and historically.

      It is one thing to be willfully ignorant; it is quite another thing to simply be unaware of the history of the church. It is to these latter Christians, primarily, that we present Athanasius, Ontology, and the Work of Christ. In an age when the teaching of the fathers of the church has become either highly obscure (in the hands of scholars and specialists) or highly malleable (in the hands of those who have an agenda to promote by means of historical revisionism), it behooves the inquiring Christian to revisit the past, that he may understand why Christians have overwhelmingly and/or universally asserted certain doctrines to be the case.

      §II. Reclaiming the Past

      The goal of this work is not merely to revisit the past, however, but to demonstrate, through our revisiting of the past, that Athanasius of Alexandria was not an annihilationist. It is to reclaim the past by demonstrating that this spiritual giant was a proponent of the very doctrine annihilationists deny he espoused, viz. eternal conscious torment.

      This will be accomplished, therefore, by first establishing that the earliest fathers, who constitute the soil from which Athanasius grew, were not annihilationists but proponents of the doctrine of everlasting conscious torment. Regarding this matter, Marshall Randles’ essay The Patristic Doctrine opens the book. He begins by giving an overview of the pertinent arguments made by annihilationists attempting to prove that these early fathers were annihilationists, refuting them by giving special attention to how the early fathers used key words and phrases central to the annihilationists’ misappropriation of their writings. Randles convincingly argues that the annihilationists use the fathers too hastily, proof-texting passages that sound as if they teach annihilationism. It is context which will demonstrate the falsity of the claim that the early fathers were annihilationists. Thus, Randles provides that historical and literary context.

      He also proves that Irenaeus, perhaps one of the greatest influences on Athanasius, was also not an annihilationist. And this prepares the ground for the second way in which it will be proven that Athanasius was not an annihilationist but a proponent of eternal conscious torment. In Chapter 2, Hiram R. Diaz III’s eponymous article draws heavily from the best contemporary scholarship on Athanasius of Alexandria, work which unequivocally affirms that the father believed in the immortality of all

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