"Jesus, whom I know as my Redeemer, cannot be less than God"
--St. Athanasius of Alexandria, at the Council of Nicaea, 325 A.D.
In a day and age when religion is discarded an a Jewish man who claimed to be God is looked upon with indifference, this book can awaken us to the importance of recongizing that this Man Jesus claimed to be God and proved it by rising from the dead.
The early Chirstian Church, under the teaching of the Apostles, who had been slow to believe, retained the final understanding that this Man, Jesus, was also God.
Without a belief in the Divinity of Jesus, Christianity is built on nothing. St. Athanasius believed that those who opposed the fact that Jesus was God and Man were living with a false notion. The Arian heresy seemed suave and easy to put over. However, despite their alienation of at least half of the bishops of the time, the followers of the renegade priest Arius failed to destroy the Church of the Son of God.
If you think the Catholic Church is in dis-array at the present time, you should read this book to see how awfully diarrayed the Church was at the time of St. Athanasius.
Despite the fact that St. Athanasius is not greatly known in the Western Catholic Church, he is one of our greatest heroes.