This paper will focus on interactive summary on the book by St Basil the great, On the Holy Spirit and it will include different aspects of the status and operation of the Holy Spirit and will discuss the substance of Holy Spirit with Father and the Son and in what sense we worship and glorify Holy Spirit and how it affects our way of worship
St. Basil of Caesarea, the Great, (ca. 330-79) lived in one of the most significant centuries in the history of the Church. It helps us to understand the outstanding features about the flourishing of asceticism and the doctrinal disputes over the Son and the Spirit occupied by the early church. Basil orthodoxy was challenged and it was endeavored to unite the moderate fraction of church against those
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The nature of the cause is one thing that of the instrument, another, and that of the place, still another. Therefore, the Son is different in nature from the Father and the Holy Spirit is different insofar as place or time are different in nature from the instrument or those who use them.
The true line of thoughts is provoked on all sides, namely that father creating through the Son neither proves that the Father’s creative activity is less than perfect nor shows that the Son’s energy is weak. Instead it demonstrates the unity of the will. It clearly shows that Son is doing whatever Father wants him to do, he demonstrate the obedience but it does not mean they are different.
The Holy Spirit is the person by whom the church has authority to worship the Father through the Son (Rom 8:15). The Holy Spirit is a mean to activate the power of the Spirit and make it a spiritual reality. "Spirit of God," "Spirit of truth which proceeded from the Father," "right Spirit," "a leading Spirit." Its proper and peculiar title is "Holy Spirit;" which is a name especially appropriate to everything that is incorporeal, purely immaterial, and
See the works of Origen and Mark DelCogliano, Andrew Radde-Gallwitz, Lewis Ayres, Athanasius, and Didymus, Works on the Spirit: Athanasius’s Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, and, Didymus’s On the Holy Spirit (Yonkers, N.Y.: St. Vladimir’s Seminary Press, 2011).
Nearly 300 years separated Ignatius of Antioch and Augustine of Hippo, during that time a lot changed for Christians in the Roman Empire. The church moved from being a criminal religious organization, to a legal religious organization, to the only legal public religion. Christians during this time were always engaging the culture around them—religion, politics, literature, education, etc. This paper will describe the Christian Roman religion before Constantine and after Constantine.
The author utilizes his advanced research knowledge to organize the text in a successful manner thus describing major themes. Some of the major themes in the text include the origins of the Roman religion, significance of the religious calendar, and ideal structure of the religious space. Furthermore, the author focuses on demonstration of the forms or aspects of religious services and rituals, core theologies that played key roles in shaping the religious observance, priests, and the gods. The author enhances his presentation in the development of the text through clear and accessible illustration of the concepts. The author also includes substantive quotations from ideal primary sources demonstrating the chronology of religious as well as historical events between 7...
Born in the year 330 AD in the northern Asian minor, Basil the Great's childhood consisted of his grandmother lecturing him on the work and teachings of Gregory the Wonderworker, Bishop of Neocaesarea. Soon after, Basil began his rhetoric teaching with his father in Neocaesarea. Basil then moved on to Caesarea, Cappadocia to continue his studies. Later, Basil traveled to Athens to continue his studies in rhetoric. Notably, he studied for five years with his good friend, Gregory of Nazianzus who became a theologian and Cappadocia father. Before Basil returned to Caesarea, he journeyed to countries such as Palestine, Egypt, Mesopotamia, and Syria, where he studied the rise of ascetics, or the practice of severe self-discipline and abstention. Basil, returning to Caesarea, entered a monastic life. Between 357-365 AD, Basil remained monastic. At the same time, a number of aesthetic communities began growing around him, "seeking his guidance". Basil rose through the ranks, first designated as a reader in 360, then a priest in 362. Basil made a name for himself in 379 when he preached for...
Though the people who left their marks on the early church, St Basil the Great's influence was one of the most important. Through his work and teachings, the modern orthodoxy has a broader understanding of heresy. W
In the fifth discourse, the Son of God is described to further reflect himself about his unique and intimate eternal activity. First the author describes the production of the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is said to be the bond between the divine persons. And the Son of God wanted his own person to be the producer. This would be the bond between the human and the divine being. The author describes the Holy Spirit as being a person that proceeds from the Holy Trinity. It is the bond that creates a sense of unity among the divine Persons and that they are perfectly united in the “unity of the Holy Spirit” yet they still are able to maintain their distinct natures (pg 134). The author also mentions two mysteries. The first mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore, uniting two persons. And the second mystery is described as having a divine person whom we adore by uniting the two natures, one which is divine and the other being human. “He contemplates, adores and imitates the unity of the Holy Spirit, who is the third Person in the order of the Holy Trinity and who, by his nature, is the eternal bond between the two Persons from whom he proceeds.” (pg 135). All together the Son of God is our personal love and sacred unity. He is uniquely expressed and distinctly represented by “the states and qualities of this divine mystery, which is in a perfect relationship with what is ineffable in eternity, as well as being a living portrait of God” (135).
In this essay, I investigate the Trinity, God the Father, Son and Holy Spirit and how God understood. I will also consider how this can be communicated in the church today. Essay 1 : What does it mean to say the one God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit? My understanding is that in the Triune relationship, God is Father, Son and Holy Spirit. In other words, God is three persons in one.
The doctrine of the Holy Spirit begins with examining biblical witness to the work of the Holy Spirit in the history of Israel, as well as the ministry of Jesus, and in the life of the church. During the creation account it was the breath of God that grave life to all creation. The Holy Spirit has been a primate actor sin the beginning of time. While the Spirit was present prior to the ministry of Christ, the New Testament speaks in greater detail of the Spirit because it empowered Jesus. From his conception to the day of Pentecost the Sprit was present and active in the life of Christ and the believers. We see in ...
Successively, at the age of twenty-three John abandoned the world and dedicated his life to serving Christ. Shortly afterwards, he joined his friend Basil in the monastic life. Later Basil was elected to the Priesthood. This paper evaluates St. John’s work entitled On the Priesthood a dialog with his friend Basil.
The distinction between the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit shows through a distinction of roles of each persons within one divine nature. The
First major theme of the book of Acts is the work of the Holy Spirit in the apostles and the early church. Jesus appeared to his disciples and commanded them not to leave Jerusalem but wait for the gift, the Holy Spirit (Acts 1:3b-5) As they gathered together and prayed in one place, the Holy Spirit came to rest on each of them (2:1-3). The disciples who were filled with the Holy Spirit boldly proclaimed God’s word and performed miracles (2:14-42, 3:1-10). Throughout the book, the author focuses on how the Holy Spirt ministers the apostles and the believers in their lives and the community.
In this paper, I wish not to exalt or boast in my self, for nothing good can come from man. Our Lord our God is so set apart, so divine that our finite minds cannot understand or comprehend spiritual matters. Even though we are torn in our mindset, split between our pre-existing flesh. As well as our new and reborn minds and eyes set into place by the promise of love by the blood, with the marriage of the Holy Spirit. In this paper, I wish to express the mystery of the Holy trinity, from the past to now in the present. Knowing that the promise and the mystery of God, is still the same since the start of time, till now, and to the end of the world.
The attempt to answer this question leads to the Christian doctrine of the Trinity: God is the transcendent One who has become one with humanity in the person of Jesus Christ and through whose spirit we and the whole cosmos are being brought to fulfilment. Trinity affirms, “There is but one living and true God....., and in the unity of this Godhead there be three persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the Father, the son, and the Holy ghost.” Because of the heavily psychological connotation of the word “person” in contemporary usage, it is a natural temptation to imagine that the Father, the son, and the spirit constitute three distinct consciousnesses, three centers of activity, three concrete beings. That is why theologians as Augustine, Karl Barth, and Karl Rahner were reluctant to use the term “person” and coined other phrases such as Seinsweise (modes of being: Barth) or distinct Subsistenzweise(manners of subsisting: Rahner) to refer to the Father, the Son, and the
It also distributes the Christians spiritual gifts “as he wills” (Enns 68). The study of the Holy Spirit is called Pneumatology. It comes from the Greek word “Pneuma” which is translated to air. It is a neuter gender word which means the Spirit is not described as masculine or feminine (Enns 68). The spirit is a person, so it works in Christians when they accept
The Holy Spirit is a doctrine that most Christians are not familiar with and do not understand how Holy Spirit works. The Holy Spirit is considered part of the Holy Trinity: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit has always been present since the beginning of creation. This paper will analyze the meaning of the Holy Spirit in relation to speaking in tongues. One argument is that one does not have to speak in tongues to show evidence of the Holy Spirit. The other side of the argument is that speaking in tongues is a sign of the indwelling of Holy Spirit. Paul’s teachings about the gifts of the Holy Spirit and speaking in tongues will also be discussed.