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Athanasius and the Holy Spirit : the development of his early pneumatology / Kevin Douglas Hill.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Emerging scholarsPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, 2016.Description: xxii, 289 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1506416683 020 9781506416687
  • |z9781506416694 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BR118 .E44  H55 2016
Contents:
Part I. Athanasius's pastoral works. 1. The problem of pneumatological reticence in Against the Pagans-On the incarnation -- 2. Pneumatology in the early pastoral work -- 3. Pneumatology in the later pastoral works -- Part II. The Orations against the Arians. 4. A foundational pneumatology: the Holy Spirit in Athanasius's Trinitarian arguments -- 5. Essential for salvation: Psalm 45:7 and Christ's reception of the Holy Spirit -- 7. The spirit of the Son: the Holy Spirit's union with the Son.
Summary: Most studies of Athanasius on the Holy Spirit have concentrated on his Letters to Serapio on the Holy Spirit. In this book, Kevin Douglas Hill looks at his earlier writing and argues that without that earlier work he would not have been prepared to confess the Holy Spirit's divine nature and role in creating the world. 600 00 Athanasius,|cSaint, Patriarch of Alexandria,|d-373.
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Joshua & Timothy School of Theology Library (JTSOT) General Circulation Non-fiction BR118 .E44 H55 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Not For Loan 065903
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.

Part I. Athanasius's pastoral works. 1. The problem of pneumatological reticence in Against the Pagans-On the incarnation -- 2. Pneumatology in the early pastoral work -- 3. Pneumatology in the later pastoral works -- Part II. The Orations against the Arians. 4. A foundational pneumatology: the Holy Spirit in Athanasius's Trinitarian arguments -- 5. Essential for salvation: Psalm 45:7 and Christ's reception of the Holy Spirit -- 7. The spirit of the Son: the Holy Spirit's union with the Son.

Most studies of Athanasius on the Holy Spirit have concentrated on his Letters to Serapio on the Holy Spirit. In this book, Kevin Douglas Hill looks at his earlier writing and argues that without that earlier work he would not have been prepared to confess the Holy Spirit's divine nature and role in creating the world. 600 00 Athanasius,|cSaint, Patriarch of Alexandria,|d-373.

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