Athanasius

For forty-five years bishop of Alexandria — seventeen of them spent in five separate exiles under four emperors — Athanasius was the immovable defender of the Council of Nicaea. Against Arianism he insisted that unless the Son is fully God, we are not saved; his On the Incarnation remains the classic statement of why God became man. His Life of Antony carried the ideals of the desert monks across the Roman world, and his Easter letter of 367 gives the earliest list of exactly our twenty-seven New Testament books. 'Athanasius against the world,' admirers said — and the world eventually came round.

His Easter letter of 367 contains the earliest known list of exactly the twenty-seven books of our New Testament.

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