![]() ![]() The dispute began when Athanasius was the chief deacon assistant to Bishop Alexander of Alexandria. ![]() Most often the problem was his stubborn insistence that Arianism, the reigning "orthodoxy" of the day, was in fact a heresy. Yet in the end, his theological enemies were "exiled" from the church's teaching, and it is Athanasius's writings that shaped the future of the church. He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years he served as bishop of Alexandria in exile. And the short, dark-skinned Egyptian bishop had plenty of enemies. ![]() "Black Dwarf" was the tag his enemies gave him. "Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers." ![]()
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