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Saint Antony the Great’s Nicenism

Paper offered for the conference “The Living Spirit of Nicaea,” St Athanasius College, University of Divinity, Melbourne, 20-22 June 2025. Audio recording Abstract: Athanasius’ Life of Antony 69 refers to Antony’s visit to Alexandria, where he confirmed the orthodox faith in what, undoubtedly, was meant as a show of support for Egypt’s embattled archbishop. As the episode has Antony speaking Athanasius’ theological language of the Logos incarnate being “of the essence of the Father,” together with quoting Arius’ keywords Athanasius has discussed in Against the Arians, modern scholars doubt that these were the holy hermit’s ipsissima verba. In this paper, I revisit the scholarly deconstruction of the episode as an Athanasian fabrication, as well as the relevant passage in Life of Antony, which I read alongside Against the Arians. Furthermore, I consider the relevant passage in the light of Antony’s references to Christ in the Letters, suggesting that the holy man espoused Nicene-like convictions, which proves the accuracy of the Athanasian account and which, furthermore, could mean that it was Antony’s christology that influenced Athanasius’, not the other way around. Bio: Protopresbyter Doru Costache is Associate Professor of Theology at the Sydney College of Divinity and Academic Dean of Nisibis Assyrian Theological College also at the Sydney College of Divinity. He authored Nature Contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: Elements of the Method (Routledge, 2025) and Humankind and the Cosmos: Early Christian Representations (Brill, 2021). He has also coauthored A New Copernican Turn: Contemporary Cosmology, the Self, and Orthodox Science-Engaged Theology (with Geraint F. Lewis; Routledge, 2024) and Dreams, Virtue and Divine Knowledge in Early Christian Egypt” (with Bronwen Neil and Kevin Wagner; Cambridge University Press, 2019).