"A Christian, according to Athanasius, was someone who, by faith in Christ, was given a share in the eternal life of the Holy Trinity. Faith in Christ meant believing in him as the eternal Son, who became flesh to deliver us from the corruptions of sin and death, in which we were hopelessly entangled, and from which we had no power to extricate ourselves. What the Word enjoys in himself by nature, namely, eternal life, we receive in the power of the Holy Spirit, through our union with Christ by faith. For Athanasius, what it meant to be a Christian could not be stated apart from an interlocking nexus of trinitarian, incarnational, and soteriological affirmations."
The Eucharist and Ecumenism: Let Us Keep the Feast, 285-86.
via my good friend John Alchin
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