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On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia
St. Athanasius the Great · image, CC0
In 359 the emperor called two councils to replace the Nicene Creed with a vaguer one. St. Athanasius lists the many creeds the Arians had written and shows why none of them could stand.
Near the end he reaches out to those who held the right faith but were nervous of the word “of one essence.”
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About this edition
From the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, second series, vol. 4 (1892), edited by Philip Schaff and Henry Wace.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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