Athanasius of Alexandria on the Lord's Supper
C.296 – 373 · GREEK FATHER
NOT LOCATED IN A SOURCENO POSITION FOUND°
No position located in this corpus
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
Absent from the texts read. Sacrifice and offering language is everywhere in On the Incarnation but always of Christ's body given to death, never of the Eucharist.
WHAT OTHERS HOLD HERE
The elements become Christ's body and bloodAQUINAS
True bodily presence in, with, and under the elementsLUTHER · PHILIP MELANCHTHON
Real but spiritual presence, received by faithAUGUSTINE · CALVIN · JONATHAN EDWARDS · TIM KELLER · SECOND LONDON BAPTIST CONFESSION · JOHN OWEN · R.C. SPROUL · WESLEY · WESTMINSTER CONFESSION
A memorial and sign; no presence in the elementsM. HEISER · JOHN MACARTHUR · ZWINGLI
Truly the body and blood, with no account of the modeBASIL THE GREAT · CHRYSOSTOM · IRENAEUS
See all 23 figures on the lord's supper →ABOUT THIS FIGURE
Defender of Nicene orthodoxy against Arianism through repeated exiles. On the Incarnation is his central work on why God became man.
10 OF 15 POSITIONS QUOTED
Everything Athanasius holds →Cite this page
"Athanasius of Alexandria on the Lord's Supper", Examined Doctrine, July 2026 edition, https://examineddoctrine.com/position/athanasius/lords-supper (archived at https://examineddoctrine.com/editions/2026-07/position/athanasius/lords-supper).