This book traces the development of conceptions of God and the relationship between God's being and activity from Aristotle, through the pagan Neoplatonists, to thinkers such as Augustine, Boethius and Aquinas (in the West) and Dionysius the Areopagite, Maximus the Confessor and Gregory Palamas (in the East). The result is a comparative history of philosophical thought in the two halves of Christendom, providing a philosophical backdrop to the schism between the Eastern and Western Churches.

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The letters of Saint Athanasius : concerning the Holy Spirit

Aristotle East and West : metaphysics and the division of Christendom

Preface 1. Human nature 2. Grace (part one) 3. Grace (part two) 4. Trinitarian life 5. Politics 6. Death and sacrifice 7. Workings of the Spirit.

Christ the Key

Aristotle East and West: The Prime Mover

................................................................................................................................ 2 Abbreviations ........................................................................................................................ 4 Introduction........................................................................................................................... 5 Chapter 1: The debate between Hübner and Drecoll ......................................................... 20 Hübner’s argument ......................................................................................................... 20 Drecoll’s counter-argument ............................................................................................ 36 Topics not argued by Hübner and Drecoll....................................................................... 40 Chapter 2: The Holy Spirit in the Fourth Century................................................................ 44 Asterius of Cappadocia.................................................................................................... 45 Marcellus of Ancyra......................................................................................................... 49 Eusebius of Caesarea....................................................................................................... 52 Pseudo-Athanasius .......................................................................................................... 56 Apolinarius of Laodicea ................................................................................................... 65 Athanasius of Alexandria................................................................................................. 66 Acacius of Caesarea......................................................................................................... 67 Basil of Caesarea.............................................................................................................. 70 Descriptions of the Holy Spirit from the Years 358 to 378.............................................. 76 Chapter 3: Athanasius’ Position in his Epistulae ad Serapionem ........................................ 83 Chapter 4: Basil’s Position in his De Spiritu Sancto ........................................................... 121 Basil on the Holy Spirit in his De Spiritu Sancto ............................................................ 121 Basil and post-apostolic witnesses................................................................................ 152 Chapter 5: Re-assessing the Hübner/Drecoll-findings ...................................................... 161 Drecoll’s counter-argument .......................................................................................... 173 Topics not argued by Hübner and Drecoll..................................................................... 188 Further explorations...................................................................................................... 199 Bibliography....................................................................................................................... 206 Primary Sources:............................................................................................................ 206 Secondary Sources: ....................................................................................................... 208 The Holy Spirit in the Fourth-Century Church

The Holy Spirit in the fourth-century Church : tracing the development of the Trinitarian theology of the Holy Spirit in the years 358 to 378 CE

This article firstly investigates in what way various main theological figures in the first centuries of the Christian era spoke about the Trinity and thus, also, about the Holy Spirit. Secondly, it investigates how the formulas of Early Christian confessions of faith developed into their mature and final forms. Such (baptismal) confessions often reveal trinitarian expressions and explicit wordings about the Holy Spirit.

background or methods

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The letters of Saint Athanasius : concerning the Holy Spirit

Citations

Aristotle East and West : metaphysics and the division of Christendom

Christ the Key

Aristotle East and West: The Prime Mover

The Holy Spirit in the fourth-century Church : tracing the development of the Trinitarian theology of the Holy Spirit in the years 358 to 378 CE

The Holy Spirit and the Early Church: Doctrine & Confession

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