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“There are two roads marked out to us for the discovery of what we seek”1. This sentence from Liber apologeticus by Eunomius opens the fragment recognized as being one of the most important in the entire treaty. Richard Paul Vaggione notices that “In some ways this might almost be taken as a summary of the contents of the treatise”2. Eunomius presents his theological methodology and his two ways could be described as deductive and inductive methods of reasoning3. Vaggione even proposes to recognize the entire structure of Liber apologeticus according to this fragment4. In my article, I would like to show the structure and content of his arguments in the context of the response of Eunomius’ opponents – Basil the Great and Gregory of Nyssa. Since the deductive argument has already been widely commented on5, I would like to focus on the latter, which starts form the activity6 of begetting and an attempt to show the nature of the Unbegotten Father.

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There are two roads marked out to us for the discovery of what we seek… Eunomius’ arguments on the generation of the Son based on the concepts of substance and activity