Works on the Spirit: Athanasius the Great and Didymus the Blind

Book

Community of Christ Library

Name/Title

Works on the Spirit: Athanasius the Great and Didymus the Blind

Description

"In the second half of the fourth century the mystery of the Holy Spirit was the subject of fierce debate. Those who fought against the Nicene Creed opposed the idea that the Spirit was God. Even some of those willing to accept the equality of the Father and the Son saw the Spirit as more angelic than divine. The first great testament to the Spirit's divinity -showing how the Spirit creates and saves inseparably with the Father and the son- is St. Athanasius' Letters to Serapion. Only a few years later, Didymus the Blind penned his own On the Holy Spirit, which is here translated into English for the first time. For Didymus, the Spirit transforms Christians by drawing them into the divine life itself, and must therefore be one with the Father and Son"--P. [4] of cover.

Book Details

Author

Athanasius,Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria,-373, Didymus the Blind, DelCogliano, Mark., Radde-Gallwitz, Andrew., Ayres, Lewis.

Date Published

2011

Publication Subjects

Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373. Epistolae ad Serapionem. Didymus, the Blind, approximately 313-approximately 398. De Spiritu Sancto. Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373 -- Correspondence. Serapion, of Thmuis, Saint -- Correspondence. Holy Spirit -- Early works to 1800. Saint-Esprit -- Ouvrages avant 1800. Athanasius, Saint, Patriarch of Alexandria, -373. Serapion, of Thmuis, Saint. De Spiritu Sancto (Didymus, the Blind) fast (OCoLC)fst01393122 Holy Spirit.

Call No.

BT121.3.W6813 2011