The Holy Spirit in the Eastern tradition
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This article by Metropolitan Georges Khodr offers a theological and spiritual study of the Holy Spirit in the Eastern tradition, articulated in three complementary approaches: dogmatic, liturgical, and sacramental. Drawing on the Cappadocian Fathers, Athanasius, Cyril of Alexandria, Gregory Palamas, Ephrem the Syrian, and Nicholas Cabasilas, the author examines the place of the Spirit within the Trinity, his procession from the Father and his shining forth from the Son, as well as his constitutive role in the Church born at Pentecost. The article then shows how Orthodox liturgy expresses and actualizes this pneumatology, before analyzing the action of the Spirit in the sacraments of baptism, chrismation, and the Eucharist. The principal contribution lies in the synthesis between patristic Trinitarian theology and the Syriac liturgical tradition, offering a coherent Orthodox pneumatology centered on the deification of humanity and the transfiguration of the cosmos.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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