Rethinking the Filioque with the Greek Fathers Maspero Giulio
Does the Holy Spirit proceed only from the Father--or also from the Son? Protestants and Roman Catholics might immediately answer the latter and wonder why their Orthodox friends protest.…
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Does the Holy Spirit proceed only from the Father--or also from the Son? Protestants and Roman Catholics might immediately answer the latter and wonder why their Orthodox friends protest. Historically one of the major obstacles to Christian unity across the East-West divide, the Filioque--the part of the Latin translation of the Nicene Creed claiming the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son--still bedevils Trinitarian theologians today. How can the church possibly achieve unity in the face of this dogmatic difference, implacable for over a millennium? Giulio Maspero shows us how the answer can be found in history. In the fourth century, when Pneumatomachians denied the divinity of the Holy Spirit, the Cappadocian Fathers came to a relational understanding of the most elusive person of the