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THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE DIVINE TRI-UNITY |
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1 The sources of our knowledge of the Holy Spirit. |
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Necessity and conditions for a dogmatic and theological expression |
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2 The 'Economic' Trinity and the 'Immanent' Trinity |
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II THE STAGES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF A THEOLOGY OF THE THIRD PERSON |
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Before the Arian crisis |
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(A) In the Greek part of the Church |
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1 The criticism of Arianism. Advances in the Theology if the Trinity |
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2 The Cappadocian Fathers. The First Council of Constantinople (381). John Damascene |
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3 The Filioque as professed by the Latin Fathers and the councils before it became a subject of disunity |
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The Teaching |
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The Latin Fathers |
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The Councils and the Creeds |
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The Addition of the Filioque to the Creed |
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4 The Partriarch Photius. The Era of Confrontatinon and Polemics |
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5 A Note on the Theology of Gregory Palamas |
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6 Eastern Pneumatology Today |
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(B) The West and the Revelation of the Tri-Unity of God |
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1 Augustine |
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The Theology of the Relationships |
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The Filioque |
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A Note on Augustine's Theology of the Trinity and the Eastern Tradition |
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The Images of the Trinity |
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2 Anselm |
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3 Speculative Triadology constructed in faith and under the sign of Love |
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A: Richard of Saint- Victor |
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B: Alexander of Hales and Bonaventure |
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4 Thomas Aquinas |
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5 Dogmatic definitions in Pneumatology: a need for hermeneutics |
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III THEOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS |
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1 The Father, the Absolute Source of Divinity |
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The Greek Fathers |
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The Latin West |
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2 A Theological Meditation on the Third Person |
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3 The Motherhood in God and the Femininity of the Holy Spirit |
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4 Towards a Pneumatological Christology |
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IV CONTRIBUTIONS TO AN AGREEMENT |
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1 Unity of Faith but a difference of theological expression: |
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Greeks and Latins in the understanding of the Western theologians |
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2 Attempts at and suggestions for an agreement |
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The Council of Florence |
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Appendix: Mgr Sergey and Mgr Basile Krivocheine on the Filioque |
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2 Relationships and discussions between Orthodox and non-Roman Catholic communions |
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A: Orthodox and Old Catholics |
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B: Orthodox and Anglicans |
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Appendix: Vladimir Soloviev on the Filioque |
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4 Some suggestions for agreement |
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5 Should the Filioque be suppressed in the Creed? |
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6 Did the Filioque have an ecclesiological impact? |
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7 Nine Theses in conclusion |
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Part Two |
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THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THE SACRAMENTS |
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1 The 'Seal of the Gift of the Spirit'. Some Thoughts about the Sacrament of 'Confirmation' |
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(1) Uneasiness about Confirmation |
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(2) The meaning of Confirmation is derived from the mystery of Christ |
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(3) Confirmation in the building up and the mission of the Church |
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(4) Confirmation in the growth of the baptized person |
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(5) The two sacraments of Baptism and Confirmation and the two missions of Christ and the Spirit |
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(6) Suggestions for sacramental practice |
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2 The Eucharistic Epiclesis |
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The Epiclesis cannot be separated from the whole of the Eucharistic Prayer or Anaphora; |
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the meaning of the Anaphora |
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The Fourth-Century Epicleses: Consecration by them or by the words of institution? |
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The meaning of the celebration in the West: the ordained celebrant is himself a sacramental reality |
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The liturgical expression of the mystery in the two original traditions |
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Symbols of life peculiar to the East |
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The 'Zeon' or the Eucharistic Pentecost |
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Unleavened or leavened bread? |
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Appendix: The part played by the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist according to the Western tradition |
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3 The Holy Spirit in our Communion with the Body and Blood of Christ |
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4 The Life of the Church as one long Epiclesis |
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