Christianity Today covers St. Athanasius
Linking to the exact article screws up my format, but you can find it somewhere on the general site, which I have linked here.
http://www.christianitytoday.com/
excerpt
"Those who maintain 'There was a time when the Son was not' rob God of his Word, like plunderers."
"Black Dwarf" was the tag his enemies gave him. And the short, dark-skinned Egyptian bishop had plenty of enemies. He was exiled five times by four Roman emperors, spending 17 of the 45 years he served as bishop of Alexandria in exile. Yet in the end, his theological enemies were "exiled" from the church's teaching, and it is Athanasius's writings that shaped the future of the church...
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exact url is here
http://www.christianitytoday.com/history/special/131christians/athanasius.html
Cool. I saw this online earlier today. Pretty interesting.
No contemporary called Athanasius "the black dwarf". The label only became his in 1984. I've chronicled the mistake here: http://www.conorpdowling.com/803/chasing-the-black-dwarf
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