{"id":2969,"date":"2007-06-20T16:42:03","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T14:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aomoi.net\/blog\/arkiv\/764"},"modified":"2007-06-20T16:42:03","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T14:42:03","slug":"athanasius-teolog-for-guds-inkarnerte-ord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aomoi.net\/blogg\/2007\/06\/athanasius-teolog-for-guds-inkarnerte-ord\/","title":{"rendered":"Athanasius: Teolog for Guds inkarnerte ord"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/bilde\/athanasius.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"9\"\/>I dagens audiens i Vatikanet snakket pave Benedikt om den hellige Athanasius (296-373). Om Athanasius kan vi lese p\u00e5 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.katolsk.no\/biografi\/athanasi.htm\">www.katolsk.no<\/a>:<i>&laquo;Den hellige Athanasius ble f\u00f8dt rundt 296 i Alexandria i Egypt. P\u00e5 den ber\u00f8mte kateketiske skolen hos biskop Alexander av Alexandria fikk han en glimrende gresk utdannelse som innbefattet gresk litteratur og filosofi, retorikk, rettsvitenskap og kristen doktrine. Hans kjennskap til Bibelen var eksepsjonell. Som 21-\u00e5ring ble han i 318 diakonviet og utnevnt til sekret\u00e6r for biskop Alexander. Som diakon ledsaget han i \u00e5r 325 sin biskop til det f\u00f8rste konsil (kirkem\u00f8te) i Nikea i Bithynia (i dag Iznik i Tyrkia).<\/p>\n<p>Etter keiser Konstantins omvendelse gjorde han kristendommen til offisiell statsreligion i hele Romerriket, og dermed kunne alle trygt bekjenne seg som kristne. Til gjengjeld ble den teologiske uenigheten som hadde plaget de tidligere kristne bevegelser, skarpere p\u00e5 300-tallet og i de etterf\u00f8lgende \u00e5rhundrene. Stridighetene gjaldt spesielt definisjonen av inkarnasjonen: Hvis Jesus var b\u00e5de Gud og menneske, hadde han s\u00e5 to naturer? Og i s\u00e5 fall, hvilket innbyrdes forhold hadde disse to? Den nye religionen tiltrakk mennesker med vidt forskjellig bakgrunn, tradisjoner, ritualer og forestillinger om det guddommelige. Det var av avgj\u00f8rende betydning \u00e5 definere Kristi natur, men det var sv\u00e6rt vanskelig. Det dreide seg om definisjonen av \u00abFaderen\u00bb, \u00abS\u00f8nnen\u00bb og \u00abenb\u00e5ren\u00bb.&raquo;<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I dag sa paven om Athanasius, at <strong>han har vist oss at den som n\u00e6rmer seg Gud, ikke trekker seg bort fra mennesker, tvert imot kommer han derved n\u00e6rmere menneskene<\/strong>. Og han beskrev ogs\u00e5 den <!--more--> aleksandrinske helgenen <i><font color=\"#333399\">as a &laquo;passionate theologian of the incarnation of the &#8216;Logos,&#8217; the Word of God,&raquo; and &laquo;the most important and tenacious adversary of the Arian heresy which then threatened faith in Christ by minimizing His divinity, in keeping with a recurring historical tendency which is also evident in various ways today.&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>Athanasius participated in the Council of Nicaea, when bishops established &laquo;the symbol of faith &#8230; which has remained in the tradition of the various Christian confessions and in the liturgy as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed.&raquo; There it is affirmed that &laquo;the Son is &#8216;of one substance&#8217; with the Father, precisely in order to highlight His full divinity which was denied by the Arians. &#8230; The fundamental idea behind St. Athanasius theological labors was precisely that God is accessible, &#8230; and that though our communion with Christ we can truly unite ourselves to God.&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the Arian crisis did not end with the Council of Nicaea &laquo;and on five occasions over a period of 30 years, &#8230; Athanasius [bishop of Alexandria from 328] was forced to abandon his city, spending 17 years in exile.&raquo; In this way, however, &laquo;he was able to support and defend in the West &#8230; the Nicene faith and the ideals of monasticism.&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>This saint&#8217;s most famous work &laquo;is his treatise &#8216;On the Incantation of the Word&#8217;,&raquo; in which he affirms that the Word of God &laquo;was made man that we might be made God; and He manifested Himself by a body that we might receive the idea of the unseen Father; and He endured the insolence of men that we might inherit immortality.&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>Athanasius is also the author of meditations upon the Psalms and, above all, of one of the most popular works of ancient Christian literature, &laquo;the &#8216;Life of St. Anthony,&#8217; the biography of St. Anthony Abbot which &#8230; made a great contribution to the spread of monasticism in East and West.&raquo;<\/p>\n<p>The life of Athanasius, like that of St. Anthony, the Pope concluded, &laquo;shows us that &#8216;those who draw near to God do not withdraw from men, but rather become truly close to them&#8217;.&raquo; <\/font><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I dagens audiens i Vatikanet snakket pave Benedikt om den hellige Athanasius (296-373). Om Athanasius kan vi lese p\u00e5 www.katolsk.no:&laquo;Den hellige Athanasius ble f\u00f8dt rundt 296 i Alexandria i Egypt. 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