El logos en el De incarnatione verbi de Atanasio. Una primera aproximación

Abstract

The author of this article, supported by the utilization of multiple terms, offers us an approximation to the concept of Logos in De incarnatione Verbl of Athanasius, without discarding its connection with Contra Gentes. The two principal causes of the Incarnation are: the victory over death, and the reconstitution of man according the image. Regarding the first, apart from the sacrificial payment of debt, it highlights above all the fact that life displaces death, which was interlinked with the body, because the Logos is the. The body of Christ passes from the incorruptible to the immortal in the Resurrection, which extends to all, given the similarity of the body of the Logos to our own. Regarding the second cause, man is reconstructed according to the image, because in the body of Christ is the same image of the Father, which is the Logos, who, through his works, teaches us again about the Father, because to be according to the image, is to know God. These works of the incarnate Logos include, in-good measure, the downfall of the idolatrous Greeks, of Judaism which had the promise, through Christianity. Athanasius presents us, therefore, with a splendid theology Of the Logos-God, (providential) creator and savior, but passes over in silence the soul of Jesus.