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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...

below). Apparently the length of the letter was daunting to some members of Serapion’s church and Serapion passed along their request for an epitome. They sought a summary of the first letter “so that they might have a brief and readily accessible arsenal from which they can both answer those who ask questions about our faith and refute the impious” (Serap. 2.1.1). Hence it seems that within the church of Thmuis there was still ongoing dialogue between the Tropikoi and the orthodox. And so, Athanasius
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