Works on the Spirit PPS43 (Popular Patristics Series)

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Translated by Mark DelCogliano, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, & Lewis Ayres.

In the second one half of the fourth century the mystery of the Holy Spirit used to be the subject of fierce debate. Individuals who fought against the Nicene Creed opposed the concept that the Spirit used to be 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 some years later, Didymus the Blind penned his own At 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 should subsequently be one with the Father and Son.

This volume offers new translations of two of the most powerful Patristic reflections At the work and nature of the Holy Spirit.

Mark DelCogliano teaches on the University of St Thomas in St Paul, Minnesota, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz at Loyola University Chicago, and Lewis Ayres at Durham University in the UK.

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