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Divine-identity / Nicene

Reads 'the Word was God' as including the Logos within the unique identity of the one God (the Creator-side of the Creator/creation divide); the through-line from Athanasius's homoousios to Bauckham's divine-identity Christology.

Arius vs. Athanasius (the Arian controversy) · Richard Bauckham

Readings in this camp 2

• Arius vs. Athanasius (the Arian controversy)engine

  subordinate Son (Arius) vs co-eternal homoousios (Athanasius)

  on John 1:1–3 — the Logos (the Prologue)

• Richard Bauckhamengine

  the Logos is included in God’s unique identity

  on John 1:1–3 — the Logos (the Prologue)