Divinity of the Holy Spirit
The Spirit who spoke through the prophets is no servant but the Lord himself
This doctrine confesses that the Holy Spirit is fully and coequally God, to be worshiped and glorified together with the Father and the Son. Defended by Basil of Caesarea in On the Holy Spirit and affirmed at the Council of Constantinople in 381, it answered those, called Pneumatomachians or Macedonians, who denied the Spirit's full divinity. The Spirit shares the one Godhead, not a lesser or created rank.
How it traveled
- 1 CorinthiansEphesus · 67explains
- RomansCorinth · 67explains
- ActsRome · 84explains
- JohnEphesus · 100explains
- 1 JohnEphesus · 100explains
- Against Praxeas.— · 220explains
- A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.Rome · 258explains
- Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John— · 303explains
- De Spiritu SanctoCaesarea (Cappadocia) · 379explains
- The LettersCaesarea (Cappadocia) · 379explains
- The Catechetical Lectures of S. CyrilJerusalem · 386explains
- Select Orations of Saint Gregory NazianzenNazianzus · 390explains
- Select Letters of Saint Gregory NazianzenNazianzus · 390explains
- Against EunomiusNyssa · 395explains
- On the Holy SpiritNyssa · 395explains
- On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy SpiritNyssa · 395explains
- On the Holy SpiritMilan · 397explains
- A Commentary on the Acts of the ApostlesConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. JohnConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on First CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and EphesiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- Homilies on Second CorinthiansConstantinople (Istanbul) · 407explains
- A Commentary on the Apostles' CreedAquileia · 411explains
- Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious MenBethlehem · 420explains
- Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. JohnHippo Regius · 430explains
- On the Holy TrinityHippo Regius · 430explains
- Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New TestamentHippo Regius · 430explains
- The EnchiridionHippo Regius · 430explains
- A Treatise on Faith and the CreedHippo Regius · 430explains
- The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates ScholasticusConstantinople (Istanbul) · 439explains
- The Ecclesiastical History of SozomenConstantinople (Istanbul) · 450explains
- The Ecclesiastical History, Dialogues, and Letters of TheodoretCyrrhus · 458explains
- Treatise on the Incarnation (qq[1]-59)Paris · 1274explains
- Book First. of the Knowledge of God the CreatorGeneva · 1564explains
- A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections, in Three PartsNorthampton, Massachusetts · 1758explains
Key passages(20)
57. First, we understand that he called the Holy Spirit the Spirit of the Lord. Then, since he mentioned first the Holy Spirit and added: “Thou hast not lied unto men but unto God,” you must necessari
Tap to expand
Book First. of the Knowledge of God the Creator · John Calvin
But, as I observed, the best proof to us is our familiar experience. For nothing can be more alien from a creature, than the office which the Scriptures ascribe to him, and which the pious actually fe
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XIX. Against those who assert that the Spirit ought not to be glorified. 48. “Be it so,” it is rejoined, “but glory is by no means so absolutely due to the Spirit as to require His exaltatio
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter X. Against those who say that it is not right to rank the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son. 24. But we must proceed to attack our opponents, in the endeavour to confute those “opposit
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XVII. Against those who say that the Holy Ghost is not to be numbered with, but numbered under, the Father and the Son. Wherein moreover there is a summary notice of the faith concerning righ
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XXII. Establishment of the natural communion of the Spirit from His being, equally with the Father and the Son, unapproachable in thought. πρὸς θεωρίαν δυσέφικτον. The Benedictine Latin is “
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XXI. Proof from Scripture that the Spirit is called Lord. 52. But why get an unfair victory for our argument by fighting over these undignified questions, when it is within our power to prov
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XXIV. Proof of the absurdity of the refusal to glorify the Spirit, from the comparison of things glorified in creation. 55. Furthermore man is “crowned with glory and honour,” Ps. viii. 5.
Tap to expand
De Spiritu Sancto · Basil of Caesarea
Chapter XVI. That the Holy Spirit is in every conception inseparable from the Father and the Son, alike in the creation of perceptible objects, in the dispensation of human affairs, and in the judgme
Tap to expand
Homilies on First Corinthians · John Chrysostom
[7.] Then to show its greatness, he saith, If the Spirit which knoweth the secret things of God had not revealed them, we should not have learned them. Such an object of care was this whole subject to
Tap to expand
Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men · Jerome
Chapter LXXXVI. Faustus, first abbot of the monastery at Lerins, and then made bishopOn the Holy Spirit, in which he shows from the belief of the fathers, that the Holy Spirit is consubstantial and c
Tap to expand
Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men · Jerome
Chapter CXXXIII. Amphilochius,On the Holy Spirit, arguing that He is God, that He is to be worshipped, and that He is omnipotent. Amphilochius of Cappadocia, bishop 375, died about 400.
Tap to expand
170. And as there is a light of the divine countenance, so, too, does fire shine forth from the countenance of God, for it is written: “A fire shall burn in His sight.” Ps. l. [xlix.] 3. The Holy Sp
Tap to expand
27. This seems, gracious Emperor, to be a full account of our right feeling, but to the impious it does not seem so. Observe what they are striving after. For the heretics are wont to say that the Hol
Tap to expand
43. Nor ought it to seem opposed to this, that although subsequently mention is not made of the Spirit, He is yet believed in, and what had not been mentioned in words is expressed in belief. For when
Tap to expand
60. And the Lord Himself made clear that the same Who is the Spirit of the Father is the Holy Spirit, when according to Matthew He said that we ought not to take thought in persecution what we should
Tap to expand
Lev. xix. 2. 75. Since, then, the whole invisible creation (whose substance some rightly believe to be reasonable and incorporeal), with the exception of the Trinity, does not impart but acquires the
Tap to expand
84. But how great is that grace which makes even the lower nature of the lot of men equal to the gifts received by Angels, as the Lord Himself promised, saying: “Ye shall be as the Angels in heaven.”
Tap to expand
101. This is the oil of gladness, of which the prophet says: “God, even Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the oil of gladness above Thy fellows.” Ps. xlv. [xliv.] 8. Acts x. 37, 38. 102. And well di
Tap to expand
18. You see, then, that He Who went with him, Himself departed from him. The Same is, then, the Lord, Who is the Spirit of the Lord, that is, he called the Spirit of God, Lord, as also the Apostle say
Tap to expand