- Title Pages
- 1 Patristic Theologies of Salvation
- 2 Origen of Alexandria
- 3 Irenaeus of Lyons
- 4 Saint Augustine
- 5 Athanasius
- 6 The Cappadocians
- 7 Theologies of Salvation in the Middle Ages
- 8 Anselm of Canterbury
- 9 Saint Thomas Aquinas
- 10 Julian of Norwich
- 11 Theologies of Salvation in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation
- 12 Martin Luther
- 13 John Calvin
- 14 The Catholic Reform
- 15 Theologies of Salvation from the Eighteenth to Twenty-First Centuries
- 16 John Wesley
- 17 Friedrich Schleiermacher’s Theology of Salvation
- 18 Karl Barth
- 19 Hans Urs von Balthasar and Karl Rahner
- 20 Gustavo Gutiérrez
- About the Contributors
- (p.76) 5 Athanasius
- Christian Theologies of Salvation
- John Yocum
- NYU Press
This chapter outlines the theology of salvation of Athanasius, noting that Athanasius believed that though man is fully dependent on grace, this grace is received by directing the mind toward God. As Yocum explains, Athanasius believed that the primary purpose of God becoming man in Christ was to do away with death and give way to life through the resurrection for those who are in Christ.
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