Defining God: Athanasius, Nicaea and the Trinitarian Controversy of the Fourth Century stocked we need to belong

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Yet he is not much remembered in today’s Church

Alston to Alnmouth

but be put off by the obstacles which evil and suffering are perceived to present to the God of Christianity

and along the way he makes a strong case for women’s full admittance to church ministry

Defining God: Athanasius, Nicaea and the Trinitarian Controversy of the Fourth Century stocked we need to belongThe Church has sadly never been far from controversy and conflict, exhibiting its all too human nature. The greatest and most fundamental dissension was perhaps the fourth century debate about the Doctrine of the Trinity the status of Christ and the Spirit as being fully divine. The dispute lasted at least a hundred years, and much longer among the Goths. Defining God tells the story of that controversy: its main protagonists, the involvement of