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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... exist an express theology of the Holy Spirit.2 2. The Apologists In the Apologists we find only an exposition of the rules of the faith , be- yond which , at least in pneumatology , they do not go . Their theology , in- sofar as it is ...
... exist an express theology of the Holy Spirit.2 2. The Apologists In the Apologists we find only an exposition of the rules of the faith , be- yond which , at least in pneumatology , they do not go . Their theology , in- sofar as it is ...
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... exist ; neither did the First hypostasis . Divinity was what existed . " God was alone ( solus ) , but even then He was not properly alone , for He had with Himself His Reason , which He had in Himself . God is a rational entity ; and ...
... exist ; neither did the First hypostasis . Divinity was what existed . " God was alone ( solus ) , but even then He was not properly alone , for He had with Himself His Reason , which He had in Himself . God is a rational entity ; and ...
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... exist " ( Adversus Hermogenum , ch . 3 ) . " When God desired to bring substances and appearances to reality in Him , He proferred ( protulit ) the Word , in order to actualize all things ( universalia ) through the Latter , through ...
... exist " ( Adversus Hermogenum , ch . 3 ) . " When God desired to bring substances and appearances to reality in Him , He proferred ( protulit ) the Word , in order to actualize all things ( universalia ) through the Latter , through ...
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... exist . Does Tertullian not consider this Logos ( and a fortiori the Holy Spirit ) who arises in time a creation of ... exists except this one substance , which also possesses the convenient feature that it is easily divided . This ...
... exist . Does Tertullian not consider this Logos ( and a fortiori the Holy Spirit ) who arises in time a creation of ... exists except this one substance , which also possesses the convenient feature that it is easily divided . This ...
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... exist ... and there was a time when the Word did not exist . Desiring to create us , God created a certain One and named Him Word , Wisdom , and Son , in order to create us by means of Him . " Thus , the cosmological origin and function ...
... exist ... and there was a time when the Word did not exist . Desiring to create us , God created a certain One and named Him Word , Wisdom , and Son , in order to create us by means of Him . " Thus , the cosmological origin and function ...
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