The ComforterSergius Bulgakov is widely considered to be the twentieth century's foremost Orthodox theologian, and his book The Comforter is an utterly comprehensive and profound study of the Holy Spirit. Encyclopedic in scope, The Comforter explores all aspects of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, as they are viewed in the Orthodox tradition and throughout church history. The book has sections on the development of the doctrine of the Spirit in early Christianity and on the development of the doctrine of procession in the patristic and later Byzantine periods. It also touches on the place of the Holy Spirit in the Trinity and explores Old and New Testament notions of the Spirit of God. A concluding chapter deals with the mystical revelation of the Holy Spirit. Made available in English through the work of Boris Jakim, today's premier translator of Russian theology and philosophy into English, Bulgakov's Comforter in this edition is a major publishing event. |
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... Pentecost , continues to abide in the world and to comfort us . The Pentecost is the realized and perfect Divine- humanity : The Divine - humanity is the appearance on earth of the God- Man , who has united in His Person the heavenly ...
... Pentecost , continues to abide in the world and to comfort us . The Pentecost is the realized and perfect Divine- humanity : The Divine - humanity is the appearance on earth of the God- Man , who has united in His Person the heavenly ...
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... Pentecost . The Holy Spirit abides in the world ; He is given to us and woe be to us if we are not in the Spirit . But we pray for and await the new gift of the universal Pentecost , a new answer to unanswerable questions , a new ...
... Pentecost . The Holy Spirit abides in the world ; He is given to us and woe be to us if we are not in the Spirit . But we pray for and await the new gift of the universal Pentecost , a new answer to unanswerable questions , a new ...
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... Pentecost was the living revelation of this dogma . The gifts of the Holy Spirit poured forth so obviously and so abundantly upon the 1. Throughout this translation I make use of the King James Version , which I sometimes modify to make ...
... Pentecost was the living revelation of this dogma . The gifts of the Holy Spirit poured forth so obviously and so abundantly upon the 1. Throughout this translation I make use of the King James Version , which I sometimes modify to make ...
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... Pentecost into the yawning depths of history , as we move farther away from this source of light , it grows dimmer and dimmer . But the post - apostolic age ( the age of the so- called " apostolic fathers " ) still possessed blissful ...
... Pentecost into the yawning depths of history , as we move farther away from this source of light , it grows dimmer and dimmer . But the post - apostolic age ( the age of the so- called " apostolic fathers " ) still possessed blissful ...
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... Pentecost , the Annunciation , or the gifts and actions of the Holy Spirit in the New Tes- tament Church . In short , except for a descriptive expression of the Holy Spirit's equi - divinity , we do not have a dogma of the Holy Spirit ...
... Pentecost , the Annunciation , or the gifts and actions of the Holy Spirit in the New Tes- tament Church . In short , except for a descriptive expression of the Holy Spirit's equi - divinity , we do not have a dogma of the Holy Spirit ...
Contents
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Photian AntiLatin Theology against the Latin Filioque | 95 |
On the Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit | 153 |
I In the Old Testament | 156 |
II In the New Testament | 159 |
The Dyad of the Word and the Spirit | 177 |
The Revelation of the Holy Spirit | 219 |
II Divine Inspiration in the Old Testament | 227 |
III Divine Inspiration in Christ | 244 |
IV The Pentecost | 267 |
V The Gifts of the Pentecost | 285 |
The Father | 359 |
Index | 395 |
II In the Creaturely Sophia | 189 |
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abides Absolute accomplished according action apostle Athanasius attests beauty becomes bestowed Cappadocians causality character Christ Christian Church connection consubstantiality course creation creative creaturely Sophia Creed definition descent Divine Incarnation divine inspiration Divine Sophia Divine-humanity doctrine dogmatic dogmatic definition Dyad dyadic eros essence eternal exist expressed fact Father Filioque gift glory God-Man God's grace Gregory the Theologian hath heaven Holy Spirit Holy Trinity homoousianism human idea interrelation Jesus John of Damascus kenosis latter logology Logos Lord manifested Mark of Ephesus monasticism mystery nature Neoplatonism Old Testament ontological origination ousia pagan particular path patristic Pentecost Photius pneumatology polemic prayer precisely principle problem procession prophecy prophets question received reference relation reposing revelation self-revelation sending sense sent significance speak spirit-bearing subordinationism texts theologians theology ther things Third hypostasis thou three hypostases tion transcendent trihypostatic trinitarian trinitarity truth union unity unto Word