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A study series

The Monarchy of the Father

Four studies on the doctrine that the Father is the sole source (archē) of the Son and the Spirit: what it claims and why it guards monotheism, how it was built by African theologians in Carthage and Alexandria (including a genuine, unresolved scholarly disagreement over Gregory of Nazianzus), how Athanasius carried it directly into Ethiopia through the church that confesses it to this day, and how philosophers Beau Branson and Joshua Sijuwade have revived it in contemporary analytic theology.

Start with part one
  1. 01One God, One SourceWhat the doctrine actually claims, and why it isn't tritheism
  2. 02The Fathers Who Said SoTertullian of Carthage, Origen and Athanasius of Alexandria — and one honest disagreement
  3. 03An African Church, Living StillFrom Athanasius’s own hand to a church that confesses this today
  4. 04A Contemporary ArgumentWhy analytic theology is returning to a doctrine it had mostly forgotten