"Who Can Declare His Generation?" Divine Incomprehensibility and Human Reason
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Theology of God's Son
Athanasius: We cannot know how the father begets the son without these creaturely limitations. Yet affirming the eternal generation of the son was not simply an empty phrase, it had real theological content. Athanasius: There is a point of concept between human fatherhood and divine fatherhood. He says this, how then has he been begotten? This begetting would be a triviality if it could be understood by you who have no knowledge of your own genesis.
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