The Comforter

by Bulgakov, Sergius

• ISBN13: 9780802821126
• ISBN10: 080282112X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
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Author Biography

Sergius Bulgakov (1871-1944) is widely regarded as the twentieth century's leading Orthodox theologian. He left the Soviet Union in 1923 and spent the rest of his academic career as dean and professor of dogmatic theology at Saint Sergius Theological Institute in Paris

Table of Contents

Translator's Introduction	p. vii
Author's Preface	p. xiv
Introduction: The Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Patristic Literature	p. 1
Early Christianity	p. 1
Tertullian's Subordinationism and Stoic Philosophy	p. 9
Cosmological Subordinationism in Arianism	p. 15
Ontological Subordinationism in Origen's Doctrine of the Holy Trinity	p. 18
Homoousianism in the Trinitarian Doctrine of St. Athanasius of Alexandria	p. 23
The Cappadocians' Doctrine of the Holy Trinity and of the Holy Spirit	p. 28
The Western Doctrine of Homoousian Trinitarian Theology (St. Augustine)	p. 40
The Trinitarian and Pneumatological Doctrine of St. John of Damascus	p. 42
The Place of the Third Hypostasis in the Holy Trinity	p. 53
Trinitarity and the Third Hypostasis	p. 53
The Taxis or Order of the Hypostases in the Holy Trinity	p. 68
The Procession of the Holy Spirit	p. 75
The First Doctrines of the Procession of the Holy Spirit: dia and et (que)	p. 75
The Second Epoch in the Doctrine of the Procession of the Holy Spirit. The Greco-Latin Polemic: Photian (Anti-Latin) Theology against the Latin Filioque	p. 95
On the Spirit of God and the Holy Spirit	p. 153
In the Old Testament	p. 156
In the New Testament	p. 159
The Dyad of the Word and the Spirit	p. 177
In the Divine Sophia	p. 177
In the Creaturely Sophia	p. 189
The Revelation of the Holy Spirit	p. 219
The Kenosis of the Holy Spirit in Creation	p. 219
Divine Inspiration in the Old Testament	p. 227
Divine Inspiration in Christ	p. 244
The Pentecost	p. 267
The Gifts of the Pentecost	p. 285
Epilogue: The Father	p. 359
Index	p. 395
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