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 5
... course , this in- fluence remained subtle and was not perceived by the theologians them- selves . It was chiefly manifested not in specific doctrines but in the prob- lematic , in the manner in which problems were approached or posed ...
... course , this in- fluence remained subtle and was not perceived by the theologians them- selves . It was chiefly manifested not in specific doctrines but in the prob- lematic , in the manner in which problems were approached or posed ...
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... course , both philosophical thought and the religious consciousness consider pagan polytheism to be unsound . But equally alien and inimical to the Christian dogma was the abstract monotheism to which the Judaic dogmatics led . The ...
... course , both philosophical thought and the religious consciousness consider pagan polytheism to be unsound . But equally alien and inimical to the Christian dogma was the abstract monotheism to which the Judaic dogmatics led . The ...
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... course change this relative indifference to the pneumato- logical problem as such . This problem comes to occupy the center of at- tention later , in the postpatristic epoch , starting with the ninth century , and it does this in a one ...
... course change this relative indifference to the pneumato- logical problem as such . This problem comes to occupy the center of at- tention later , in the postpatristic epoch , starting with the ninth century , and it does this in a one ...
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... course , this pre - mundane and even pre - trinitarian reason is only a power or attribute of God , not the hypostatic being of the Son . When God said " let there be light , " it was then that His Word was truly engen- dered from Him ...
... course , this pre - mundane and even pre - trinitarian reason is only a power or attribute of God , not the hypostatic being of the Son . When God said " let there be light , " it was then that His Word was truly engen- dered from Him ...
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... course , in Christology . The Antiochene tradition of Aristotelean rational- ism through Lucian , teacher of Arius , also touched the latter , whose fun- damental ideas about God are colored by Aristoteleanism . In theology Arius ...
... course , in Christology . The Antiochene tradition of Aristotelean rational- ism through Lucian , teacher of Arius , also touched the latter , whose fun- damental ideas about God are colored by Aristoteleanism . In theology Arius ...
Contents
The Place of the Third Hypostasis in the Holy Trinity | 53 |
II The Taxis or Order of the Hypostases in the Holy Trinity | 68 |
The Procession of the Holy Spirit | 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 |
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