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Athanasius of Alexandria on Election & predestination

C.296 – 373 · GREEK FATHER
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°
NO STANCE — AND WHY

No position located on this map

Searched in the sources read for this figure and not found. A limit of the reading rather than a claim about the figure — a source not yet read could settle it.

THE POSITION

Not addressed in the texts read. His framework is corporate and ontological — what happened to human nature when the Word assumed it — rather than a doctrine of who is chosen and on what basis.

WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE

Unconditional — grounded in God's free choiceAQUINAS · AUGUSTINE · VODDIE BAUCHAM · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · LUTHER · JOHN MACARTHUR · GAVIN ORTLUND · JOHN OWEN · JUSTIN PETERS · JOHN PIPER · JOHN DUNS SCOTUS · R.C. SPROUL · CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION · GEORGE WHITEFIELD · ZWINGLI
Conditional — grounded in foreseen faithJACOBUS ARMINIUS · CHRYSOSTOM · CHARLES GRANDISON FINNEY · PHILIP MELANCHTHON · WESLEY
Affirmed, held alongside real human responsibility, treated as non-dividingBILLY GRAHAM · JOSH HOWERTON
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ABOUT THIS FIGURE

Defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism through repeated exiles. On the Incarnation is his central work on why God became man.

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