A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

by Diarmaid MacCulloch

really offended was the opposite: Christian secretiveness and obstinate separation into their own world.

sister is given the credit for founding female communities along similar lines, with a programme of manual work and study of scripture.34

then became a great friend of Bishop Athanasius of Alexandria, who wrote an admiring biography of him, which has been described as ‘the most read book in the Christian world after the Bible’: a risky

Christ: ‘the same perfect in divinity and perfect in humanity, the same truly God and truly man, of a rational soul and a body; consubstantial with the Father as regards his divinity, and the same consubstantial with us as regards his humanity …’ This still remains the standard measure for discussion of the person of Christ, in Churches otherwise as diverse as Greek, Romanian and Slavic Orthodox, Roman Catholics, Anglicans and mainstream Protestants. So, like Nicaea in 325, 451 remains an important moment in the consolidation of Christian doctrine into a single package for much of the Church.

Most Important in Theology on the Hypostatic Union.