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Edward R. Hardy
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Lecturer in Early Church History, University of Cambridge, 1969–75. Professor of Church History, Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut, 1947–69. Author of Christian Egypt: Church and People; editor of Christology of the Later Fathers; Faithful Witnesses.

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St. Athanasius
St. Athanasius ; feast day May 2) was an early Christian theologian, ecclesiastical statesman, and Egyptian national leader. He was the chief defender of Christian orthodoxy in the 4th-century battle against Arianism, the heresy that Jesus, as the Son of God, was a creature of like, but not of the…
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