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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... received his doctorate from the University of Mos- cow in 1912. Later , in The Unfading Light ( 1917 ) , he gave his ... receiving ordination in 1918 . These years of internal crisis and growth in Bulgakov's personal life paralleled the ...
... received his doctorate from the University of Mos- cow in 1912. Later , in The Unfading Light ( 1917 ) , he gave his ... receiving ordination in 1918 . These years of internal crisis and growth in Bulgakov's personal life paralleled the ...
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... received by the first generation of Christians ; it was still a spirit - bearing and charis- matic age . Therefore , in the self - awareness of this age , as it was reflected in the writings of the " apostolic fathers , " the revelation ...
... received by the first generation of Christians ; it was still a spirit - bearing and charis- matic age . Therefore , in the self - awareness of this age , as it was reflected in the writings of the " apostolic fathers , " the revelation ...
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... received His form and adorn- ment , His voice and sound , became the only begotten Son ( unigenitus et unus ex solo Deo genitus ) , existing separately from II The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Patristic Literature.
... received His form and adorn- ment , His voice and sound , became the only begotten Son ( unigenitus et unus ex solo Deo genitus ) , existing separately from II The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Patristic Literature.
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... received from the Father " His form and adornment , " so the Son after His ascension , " having asked this of the Father , gave being to the Com- forter " ( ch . 25 ) . Tertullian's cosmological subordinationism is so extreme that he ...
... received from the Father " His form and adornment , " so the Son after His ascension , " having asked this of the Father , gave being to the Com- forter " ( ch . 25 ) . Tertullian's cosmological subordinationism is so extreme that he ...
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... receiving its being from the latter " ( De Principiis 1.2.9 ) . Although this emanative conception of the origin of God's second power from the first indubitably introduces a distinction between them in the sense of ontological ...
... receiving its being from the latter " ( De Principiis 1.2.9 ) . Although this emanative conception of the origin of God's second power from the first indubitably introduces a distinction between them in the sense of ontological ...
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