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God Without a Face?
Najib George Awad
Najeeb Awad
其他書名
On the Personal Individuation of the Holy Spirit
出版
Mohr Siebeck
, 2011
主題
Religion / General
Religion / Christianity / Catholic
Religion / Christianity / History
Religion / Christianity / Orthodox
Religion / Christian Theology / Pneumatology
Religion / Christian Theology / Systematic
Religion / Christian Church / History
ISBN
3161508084
9783161508080
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-L-IfP2AnW4C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Najeeb Awad aims at defending the personhood of the Holy Spirit by proposing answers to these questions: What is the Holy Spirit in relation to God? Is He a spirit-like presence of a monistic deity; is He merely a charismatic, supernatural power bestowed upon Jesus;
or
is He rather the third divine person in the Trinity, who is co-influential in and co-constitutive of the Godhead? The author re-examines the validity of both Western and Eastern trinitarian theologies and corrects their reduction of the Spirit either to a mere 'relationship' or 'mode of presence', or to a semi-subordinate
hypostasis
in a hierarchical divine Godhead that exists by virtue of the Father
alone
. He argues that viewing the Godhead as a 'reciprocal
koinonia'
offers a balanced attention to the Spirit's person and actions. He then shows that the claim of the Holy Spirit's
particular
personhood provides new dimensions for understanding God's unfathomable and mysterious personal being.