Athanasius and the Holy Spirit : the development of his early pneumatology / Kevin Douglas Hill.
Series: Emerging scholarsPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2016.Description: xxii, 289 pages ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781506416687 (alk. paper)
- 1506416683 (alk. paper)
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Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Durham University.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-284) and index.
Athanasius and the Holy Spirit; Athanasius and the Holy Spirit; ; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Athanasius's Pastoral Works; The Problem of Pneumatological Reticence in Against the Pagans-On the Incarnation; Pneumatology in the Early Pastoral Works; Pneumatology in the Later Pastoral Works; The Orations against the Arians; A Foundational Pneumatology: The Holy Spirit in Athanasius's Trinitarian Arguments; Essential for Salvation: Psalm 45:7 and Christ's Reception of the Holy Spirit; Participation in the Holy Spirit: Principles and Pneumatological Implications The Spirit of the Son: The Holy Spirit's Union with the Son Conclusion; Appendix A: The Holy Spirit in Athanasius's Works; Appendix B: The Son's Participation in the Father; Appendix C: Thematic Developments in Athanasius's Pneumatology; Bibliography: Primary Sources; Bibliography: Secondary Sources; Index
"Athanasius of Alexandria wrote over seven dozen works, the majority of which contain at least one reference to the Holy Spirit. Yet, previous studies have primarily concentrated on Athanasius's Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit (ca. 359-361), leaving a lacuna in our knowledge of Athanasius's prior pneumatology. By exploring the period from Athanasius's election as bishop (328) to the completion of the third Oration against the Arians (ca. 345), this book seeks to help fill this gap. The first part argues that by the mid-330s, Athanasius had begun to establish core pneumatological perspectives that he would maintain for the rest of his career. Part 2 examines Athanasius's three Orations, giving particular attention to Orations 1-2. To Athanasius, the Holy Spirit is eternal, uncreated, united to the Son, worthy of worship, and essential for salvation. These points laid the foundation for what was to come in Serapion. Without the pneumatological perspectives that he established in the 330s and 340s, Athanasius would not have been prepared to take the next steps of confessing the Holy Spirit's divine nature and role in creating the world."--Page 4 of cover.
