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Recent decades have witnessed increased attention on the Holy Spirit, recognizing it as a critical component in Christian thought. While the volume of publications on the Spirit indicate that scholarly discussion about the Spirit is both creative and lively, it does sometimes appear to be diffused across the spectrum of contemporary theological thought. Nowhere does this scattering seem more...

statement of Jesus containing a single key word from John 15:26: proceeds. The Holy Spirit is “the Spirit of truth, who proceeds from the Father.”4 In conflict with opponents who deny the deity of the Spirit, Gregory elevates the word who proceeds (Gk. ekporeuetai) to the status of a technical term for the eternal relation of origin by which the Spirit eternally is from God. Nazianzus recognizes that this saying of Jesus includes two elements. Jesus refers to the time “when the Helper comes, whom
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