I believe in the Holy Spirit
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This article by Olivier Clément, drawn from a colloquium organized at Chambésy on the contemporary relevance of the Council of Constantinople of 381, offers a theological meditation on the formula of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed concerning the Holy Spirit. The author structures his reflection around three pneumatological themes: life, person, and prophecy. He shows that the Spirit, confessed as "Lord and giver of life," stands in opposition to all spiritual-material dualism and grounds an ontology of Trinitarian love inherited from the Cappadocians. The notion of the person in communion, irreducible to any conceptual definition, is presented as the decisive contribution of the Council of 381 to Christian anthropology. The article finally highlights the prophetic dimension of the Church, called to move beyond institutional moralism in order to rediscover, in Palamite pneumatology, a creative dynamism capable of responding to contemporary nihilisms.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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