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Debates on holy spirit in christian theology (Origin, nature and becoming an article of faith)

2021
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Probably the most recondite part of the trinity, which is described as a mystery, is the Holy Spirit. The Bible, which is a large collection of books that contains texts from various sources, also has different understandings of the Spirit. Although the Spirit is described as "divine" performing many activity in the Old Testament,, it does not have an ontological affinity with God. In the New Testament, there is a development and transformation in the understanding of the Holy Spirit in accordance with the writing chronology of the Gospels. The scriptures of the apostolic fathers largely followed the scriptures on the subject of the Holy Spirit. But there are also texts that contain a different understanding of the Spirit, such as Hermas's Shepherd. Apology writers, on the other hand, were interested in the texts of anti-Christian writers and sought to produce an answer based on their own terminology, which contributed significantly to the development of the understanding of the Holy Spirit in Christian theology. In the 3rd century, the views of very important church fathers such as Origenes and Tertullianus on the nature of the Holy Spirit significantly influenced the debates in the 4th century. The Holy Spirit issue first came to the fore in the second half of the 4th century. First, a local Egyptian group called Tropici, and then the Makedonians/Pneumatomachi, acknowledged that the Holy Spirit was created and argued that it was different and hierarchically inferior to God the Father and Jesus Christ. Athanasius addressed the first group, whose influence was quite limited, and produced answers against their theses. The Cappadocian Fathers produced answers to the claims of the Pneumatomachi, who made the Holy Spirit the main agenda of the church for a period. In the council of Constantinople, Nicaea camp having received political support after a long time, made that the Holy Spirit took its existence from the Father and that it should be glorified and worshiped with the Father and the Son. Thus, after the victory on the christology, they officially made the decisions they wanted about the Holy Spirit.

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Dr. Yunus Kaymaz

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Yunus Kaymaz (Doctorate thesis). Debates on holy spirit in christian theology (Origin, nature and becoming an article of faith), 2021, Sakarya University.

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