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 6
... interrelation , in their intratrinitarian togetherness and mutual determination . According to the trinitarian dogma , the Holy Trinity is not a divine triunity in abstracto , but 5. To be sure , one can find vestigia trinitatis outside ...
... interrelation , in their intratrinitarian togetherness and mutual determination . According to the trinitarian dogma , the Holy Trinity is not a divine triunity in abstracto , but 5. To be sure , one can find vestigia trinitatis outside ...
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... interrelation . Here , the trinity of Divinity in unity , as well as in the distinction of the three con- crete hypostases , must be shown not only as a divinely revealed fact , valid by virtue of its facticity , but also as a principle ...
... interrelation . Here , the trinity of Divinity in unity , as well as in the distinction of the three con- crete hypostases , must be shown not only as a divinely revealed fact , valid by virtue of its facticity , but also as a principle ...
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... define the hypostatic proper- ties as well as the interrelationships of the hypostases . In general , the Father takes on the features of 18 Introduction IV. Ontological Subordinationism in Origen's Doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
... define the hypostatic proper- ties as well as the interrelationships of the hypostases . In general , the Father takes on the features of 18 Introduction IV. Ontological Subordinationism in Origen's Doctrine of the Holy Trinity.
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... interrelationship is expressed in the formula that , just as the Son is the Image of the Father , so the Holy Spirit is the Image of the Son ( Letters to Serapion 3 , 4 ) . This Athanasian idea ( also en- countered in the creed of St ...
... interrelationship is expressed in the formula that , just as the Son is the Image of the Father , so the Holy Spirit is the Image of the Son ( Letters to Serapion 3 , 4 ) . This Athanasian idea ( also en- countered in the creed of St ...
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... interrelation with the Son , which is already familiar to us from St. Athanasius ' doctrine . First of all , St. Basil the Great adopts St. Athanasius ' basic idea that " the image of God is Christ ... while the image of the Son is the ...
... interrelation with the Son , which is already familiar to us from St. Athanasius ' doctrine . First of all , St. Basil the Great adopts St. Athanasius ' basic idea that " the image of God is Christ ... while the image of the Son is the ...
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