Title: Ascetic pneumatology from John Cassian to Gregory the Great /
Authors: Humphries, Thomas L.,
Year: 2013
Subjects: Cassian, John,; Augustine,; Gregory; Holy Spirit History of doctrines
Abstract: This is a study of how Christians understood the Holy Spirit in the 5th and 6th centuries. Humphries argues that we can see various schools of thought within Christianity in this period but that many of them are occupied with similar questions about how to understand human life and how to understand divine life.
Contents: Cassian's Catholic ascetic pneumatology -- Cassian's ascetic synthesis: the Spirit in love and contemplation -- Ascetic pneumatology for the laity -- Led by the Spirit: Augustinian responses to Pelagianism and predestination -- Off the map at Lérins: an Augustinian response to Arianism -- Displaced ascetics: Fulgentius and Maxentius, an Augustinian synthesis -- Dialogue of desire: Gregory's ascetic pneumatology -- The Spirit in contemplation and allegory -- Becoming aflame with the Spirit.