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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... things ( Adversus Praxean , ch . 5 ) ; and this essentially extra - personal or pre - personal sub- stance is God , corresponding in Scripture to the Father : " Pater tota substan- tia est " ( ch . 9 ) . The Trinity did not exist ...
... things ( Adversus Praxean , ch . 5 ) ; and this essentially extra - personal or pre - personal sub- stance is God , corresponding in Scripture to the Father : " Pater tota substan- tia est " ( ch . 9 ) . The Trinity did not exist ...
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... things ( universalia ) through the Latter , through Whose cooperation they are con- ceived and predetermined " ( Adversus Praxean , ch . 5 ) . Logos - Sophia is the mediator or demiurge here , for Tertullian shared the philosophical con ...
... things ( universalia ) through the Latter , through Whose cooperation they are con- ceived and predetermined " ( Adversus Praxean , ch . 5 ) . Logos - Sophia is the mediator or demiurge here , for Tertullian shared the philosophical con ...
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... things He is separated and alien- ated from the essence of the Father.12 As a creature , the Son appears in time , and therefore the Father also appears in this sense : " God was not always the Father , but there was a time when there ...
... things He is separated and alien- ated from the essence of the Father.12 As a creature , the Son appears in time , and therefore the Father also appears in this sense : " God was not always the Father , but there was a time when there ...
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... thing for us is to indicate this in- ner logic of cosmological subordinationism , which , here , on the founda- tion of ... things according to their essence and glories ; at least , the Word , with reference to the likeness of glory and ...
... thing for us is to indicate this in- ner logic of cosmological subordinationism , which , here , on the founda- tion of ... things according to their essence and glories ; at least , the Word , with reference to the likeness of glory and ...
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... things , the substance ( substantia ) of God the Father is thought to a superlative degree . All these things can never be taken away from Him and can never be separated from His essence " ( 4.28 ) . Relying on the fundamen- tal ...
... things , the substance ( substantia ) of God the Father is thought to a superlative degree . All these things can never be taken away from Him and can never be separated from His essence " ( 4.28 ) . Relying on the fundamen- tal ...
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