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Works on the Spirit: Athanasius’s Letters to Serapion on the Holy Spirit, and, Didymus’s on the Holy Spirit is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the second half of the fourth century the mystery of the Holy Spirit was the subject of fierce debate. Those who fought against the Nicene Creed opposed the idea that the Spirit was God. Even some of those willing to accept the equality of the Father and the Son saw the Spirit as more angelic than divine. The first great testament to the Spirit’s divinity—showing how the Spirit creates and...

there is no other Son, for he is only-begotten. Hence the one and only Father is the Father of the one and only Son, and only in the case of the divinity have the names “Father” and “Son” always been stable and always are. 1.16.3. But among human beings, if someone is called a father, he is nonetheless another man’s son; and if someone is called a son, he is nonetheless another man’s father. Hence among human beings the names ‘”father” and “son” are not preserved in their proper senses. 1.16.4.
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