Obsculta Volume 2 Issue 1 Article 5 5-1-2009 Goodness Gracious, Athanasius Chris Ángel College of Saint Benedict/Saint John’s University Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/obsculta Part of the Religion Commons ISSN: 2472-2596 (print) ISSN: 2472-260X (online) Recommended Citation Ángel, Chris. 2009. Goodness Gracious, Athanasius. Obsculta 2, (1) : 13-13. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/obsculta/vol2/iss1/5. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Obsculta by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Goodness Gracious, Athanasius! Goodness gracious, Athanasius! How you fought that Arius! “Christ’s a creature—but, he’s featured,” was his claim nefarious. Arius yelped, “God needs no help. He’s the only source of stuff. Christ is fine, but not divine, well, not quite fully, but enough.” Goodness gracious, Athanasius! This, your bold, insightful stance: “It is not odd; Christ must be God to effect deliverance. If he’s not, then problems we’ve got; hon’ring idols ain’t our style. Don’t start Christ’s fate with his birth date! He existed all the while.” Goodness gracious, Athanasius! For you we’ve affinity; Your thoughts precious: how God meshes human with divinity. At Nicea, your ideas were the answer to the fuss. Athanasius, so loquacious, now from heaven, pray for us. Goodness gracious, Athanasius! So you didn’t write your creed. All your writing, wrong indicting, gave the church the Christ we need.