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Championed the full divinity of Christ at Nicaea. Exiled five times, he never compromised. His statement 'He became man that we might become god' became the foundation of the church's doctrine of theosis.

The most influential father of the Western church. From Manichaeism to Christ, from license to repentance — his life witnesses to grace. His teaching on sin and grace, the Trinity, and the church shaped Christian theology for the next sixteen hundred years.