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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...

1.25.1. {1.25} And so, the Spirit is different from creatures and instead has been shown to be proper to the Son and not foreign to God. But let’s return to that clever question of theirs: “If the Spirit is from God, why isn’t he also called a son?”60 In what precedes it was already shown how reckless and audacious this question is, and now it will be shown to be no less so. 1.25.2. For if he is not called a son in
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