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PREFACE ................................................................................................................................................ vi
PROLEGOMENA.
Chapter I. LITERATURE ..................................................................................................................... xi
II. LIFE OF ATHANASIUS and ACCOUNT OF ARIANISM ...................................................... xiii
III. WRITINGS AND CHARACTER OF ATHANASIUS .............................................................. lxiii
IV. THEOLOGY OF ATHANASIUS .......................................................................................... lxviii
V. CHRONOLOGICAL DISCUSSIONS AND TABLES ................................................................ lxxx
APPENDIX. The Prefects and Duces of Egypt........................................................... xc
A. SELECT WORKS OF ATHANASIUS.
1. Adversus Gentes Libri duo
a. Against the Heathen (Contra Gentes) ........................................................................... 1
b. On the Incarnation (De Incarnatione Verbi Dei) ........................................................ 31
2. Deposition of Arius, and circular letter (Oxford translation by Rev. M. Atkinson, with notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson) ........................................................................ 68
3. Council of Nicæa. The ‘Epistola Eusebii’ from Athanasius de Decretis, translation, notes, and excursus of Newman (revised by Rev. A. Robertson) ........................................................ 73
4. Statement of Faith (Ecthesis, or Expositio Fidei) ................................................................... 83
5. On Luke x. 22 (In Illud Omnia, &c.) ........................................................................................ 86
6. Encyclical Letter (Epistola Encyclica), Oxford translation by Rev. M. Atkinson, with notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson .............................................................................. 91
7. Apology (Apologia contra Arianos), Atkinson’s translation, notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson ..................................................................................................................... 97
8. Defence of the Nicene Council (de Decretis), translation and notes of Newman. (Appendix above, No. 3). Slightly revised ................................................................................................. 149
9. Defence of Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria (de Sententia Dionysii) ...................................... 173
10. Life of Antony (vita Antoni), translation by Rev. H. Ellershaw, M.A., with notes, &c., by Rev. A. Robertson ..................................................................................................................... 188
11. Circular to Bishops of Egypt and Libya (ad Episcopos Ægypti), Atkinson’s translation, notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson .............................................................................. 222
12. Apology to the Emperor (Apologia ad Constantium), Atkinson’s translation, notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson ........................................................................................ 236
13. Defence of his flight (Apologia de Fuga), Atkinson’s translation, notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson ..................................................................................................................... 254
14. Arian History (Historia Arianorum ad Monachos), Atkinson’s translation, with notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson .................................................................................. 266
15. Against the Arians (Orationes contra Arianos IV.), translation and notes of Newman, revised by Rev. A. Robertson .............................................................................................................. 303
16. On the Councils of Ariminum and Seleucia (de Synodis), Newman’s translation, with notes, revised by Rev. A. Robertson ................................................................................................. 448
17. Synodal letter (Tomus ad Antiochenos) .................................................................................... 481
Appendix.—Account by Athanasius of his flight under Julian (Narratio ad Ammonium), translation by Rev. H. Ellershaw .......................................................................................... 487
18. Synodal letter (ad Afros)............................................................................................................. 488