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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Page 25
... remains predominantly dyadic . Noteworthy in this respect is that aspect of his doctrine where he touches upon the question of the Holy Spirit . It is significant that in all of his works that are dedicated to logology , St. Athanasius ...
... remains predominantly dyadic . Noteworthy in this respect is that aspect of his doctrine where he touches upon the question of the Holy Spirit . It is significant that in all of his works that are dedicated to logology , St. Athanasius ...
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... remains predominantly a logologist or christologist even in his pneumatology . This results in another one - sided or incomplete aspect of his thought : his logology has not only an economic and cosmological charac- ter but is also ...
... remains predominantly a logologist or christologist even in his pneumatology . This results in another one - sided or incomplete aspect of his thought : his logology has not only an economic and cosmological charac- ter but is also ...
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... remains , however , without influ- ence on further patristic thought . But it represents a characteristic ele- ment in St. Athanasius ' doctrine as the classic expression of the dyadic doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the Son in Their ...
... remains , however , without influ- ence on further patristic thought . But it represents a characteristic ele- ment in St. Athanasius ' doctrine as the classic expression of the dyadic doctrine of the Holy Spirit and the Son in Their ...
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... remains a philosophically unsub- stantiated postulate . With respect to the one divine substance the trine forms are deter- mined , according to Aristotle , by special hypostatic properties . These properties are taken from the ...
... remains a philosophically unsub- stantiated postulate . With respect to the one divine substance the trine forms are deter- mined , according to Aristotle , by special hypostatic properties . These properties are taken from the ...
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... remains unfinished in the sense that its result is three united in one nature , not a triunity . The unity of the Holy Trinity is thus established not by the trihypostatizedness of the Divine Person , including the trinitarity of the ...
... remains unfinished in the sense that its result is three united in one nature , not a triunity . The unity of the Holy Trinity is thus established not by the trihypostatizedness of the Divine Person , including the trinitarity of the ...
Contents
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68 | |
75 | |
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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Common terms and phrases
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