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Hilary declares (§ 17) that his purpose is to refute these heresies and to demonstrate the true faith by the evidence of Scripture.
Jul 28, 2000 · St. Hilary of Poitiers, The Trinity, 1, 6. Prayer: O God, what are we without Your loving care? Help us to realize how small and poor we are if we do not recognize Your sovereignty.
Book VI. Hilary begins by lamenting the wide extension of Arianism; his love for souls leads him to combat the heresy, whose insidiousness makes it the more dangerous (§§ 1-4). He repeats in §§ 5, 6 the same Arian creed which he had given in Book IV.
Hilary of Poitiers ( Latin: Hilarius Pictaviensis; c. 310 – c. 367) [2] was Bishop of Poitiers and a Doctor of the Church. He was sometimes referred to as the "Hammer of the Arians " ( Malleus Arianorum) and the " Athanasius of the West". [3] His name comes from the Latin word for happy or cheerful.
Book III. In §§ 1-4, the words, I in the Father and the Father in Me, are taken as typical. Man cannot comprehend, but only apprehend them. So far as they are explicable Hilary explains them. But God's self revelation is always mysterious. The miracles of Christ are inexplicable (§§ 5-8); this is God's way, and meant to check presumption.
Jan 13, 2024 · Saint Hilary of Poitiers’ Story. This staunch defender of the divinity of Christ was a gentle and courteous man, devoted to writing some of the greatest theology on the Trinity, and was like his Master in being labeled a “disturber of the peace.”
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3 days ago · On January 13, Catholics celebrate St. Hilary of Poitiers, a fourth-century philosopher whose studies made him a champion of Orthodox Trinitarian theology during one of the most difficult...
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