Adjective
Of or pertaining to Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria in the 4th century.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThe Athanasian Creed is the most splendid ecclesiastical lyric ever poured forth by the genius of man. Benjamin Disraeli
The Athanasian Creed is to me light and intelligible reading in comparison with much that now passes for science. Samuel Butler (novelist)
Ah! what if some unshamed iconoclast Crumbling old fetish raiments of the past, Rises from dead cerements the Christ at last? What if men take to following where He leads, Weary of mumbling Athanasian creeds? Roden Noel
Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian creed in public. W. H. Auden
Athanasius of Alexandria was traditionally thought to be the author of the Athanasian Creed, and gives his name to its common title. Source: Internet
The text of the Athanasian Creed is as follows: The Christology of the second section is more detailed than that of the Nicene Creed, and reflects the teaching of the First Council of Ephesus (431) and the definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451). Source: Internet