(2) Along with the orthodox faith
about the Father and the Son just as the scriptures teach us, we confess one
Holy Spirit, one catholic Church, and the resurrection of the dead, of which
the first fruits were our Lord and our life-giver Jesus Christ, having put on a
body from Mary Theotokos so that he might come among humankind, who having died
rose from the dead, was taken up into heaven, and is seated at the right hand
of Greatness. (“Fragmentary Encyclical Letter of Alexander of Alexandria,” in Documents
of the Early ‘Arian’ Controversy and the Council of Nicaea [trans. David M.
Gwynn, Richard Price, Michael Whitby, and Philip Michael Forness; Translated
Texts for Historians 91; Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2025], 109-10)
