St. Basil The Great, On The Holy Spirit

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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 …show more content…

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

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