The anthropology of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria in the "De Incarnatione" and the "Discourses against the Arians"

This article by Michel Stavrou offers a synthetic study of the theological anthropology of Saint Athanasius of Alexandria, based primarily on two corpora: the *De Incarnatione*, an early apologetic work, and the *Orations against the Arians*, a mature work hitherto unpublished in French. The author shows that Athanasius does not develop a systematic anthropology, but a vision of humanity entirely structured by christology and soteriology. Man, created *kat' eikona* of the Word, is constituted by a vital relationship with God, the rupture of which leads to corruption and death. The Incarnation of the Word restores and surpasses the original condition by offering filial adoption and deification. The contribution of the article lies in shedding light on Athanasius's relational conception of the image of God, and in examining its resonance in contemporary theologians such as Metropolitan John Zizioulas.