| He spoke many languages, could read Hebrew, and quoted as easily from St. Athanasius as from the Sermon on the Mount. |
| Athanasius Kircher, the eccentric seventeenth-century Jesuit polymath, collector of curiosities, and borderline crank. |
| Athanasius Kircher was a Jesuit priest and polymath, a man of unusual talents. |
| Opposing all forms of Arianism, which denied Christ's divinity, Athanasius taught that Christ the Son, and likewise the Holy Spirit, were of the same being as God the Father. |
| In such a characterization one does not need to work hard to see Barth and Athanasius reflecting the concerns of the socially progressive Anglo-Catholic Oxford theologian. |
| Yet, as he shows, it was characteristic and effective in the hands of churchmen like Athanasius, Augustine, Bernard, Anselm, and Calvin. |
