Glib Simplicity

“Someone, and it may have been Gibbon, made merry over the fact that the church at the time of Athanasius was all roiled up over one little iota: the difference between homoousion and homoiousion. Of course, this is like saying that the debate between atheism and theism is really a debate over the letter a. This kind of glib simplicity won’t cut it” (“Sola Scriptura, Creeds, and Ecclesiastical Authority” in When Shall These Things Be? p. 256).