You are invited to attend our next monthly meeting to be held on Friday, July 11th from 4:00pm to 5:30pm.
We will be discussing “Athanasius, Nicaea, and the “Arian Controversy”” by David M. Gwynn from the Winter 2024 issue entitled “The Council of Nicaea (1,700 Years Later)” (Volume 51.4).
Here are excerpt from the Introduction to the issue:
David M. Gwynn, in “Athanasius, Nicaea, and the ‘Arian Controversy,’” gives a historical reconstruction of the role Athanasius of Alexandria served in defining Church doctrine in the wake of the Arian controversy. According to Gwynn, there is a need to separate the history from both the polemical account of Arianism and the hagiographic descriptions of Athanasius. While modern critics have challenged the hagiographic accounts and questioned the significance of Athanasius’s role in the controversy, Gwynn argues that a thorough analysis of the historical accounts reveals that Athanasius’s accomplishments arguably exceed those reported in the hagiography.
We will meet in the Kateri Room located at St. Michael’s Church, 240 Hemlock Street, Waterloo, Ontario. Use the east side parking lot and enter by the rear doors. Walk up the stairs. The Kateri Room is on your right before you enter the church proper.
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