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Irenaeus of Lyons and the Theology of the Holy Spirit

By (author) Anthony Briggman

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Irenaeus' theology of the Holy Spirit is often highly regarded amongst theologians. today, but that regard is not universal, nor has an adequate volume of literature. supported it. This study provides a detailed examination of certain principal, often. distinctive, aspects of Irenaeus' pneumatology. In contrast to those who have. suggested Irenaeus held a weak conception of the person and work of the Holy Spirit, . Anthony Briggman demonstrates that Irenaeus combined Second Temple Jewishtraditions. of the spirit with New Testament theology to produce the most complex. Jewish-Christian pneumatology of the early church. In so doing, Irenaeus moved. beyond his contemporaries by being the first author, following the New Testament. writings, to construct a theological account in whichbinitarian logic did not. diminish either the identity or activity of the Holy Spirit. That is to say, he was. the first to support his Trinitarian convictions by means of Trinitarian. logic.Briggman advances the narrative that locates early Christian pneumatologies in. the context of Jewish traditions regarding the spirit. In particular, he argues that. the appropriation and repudiation of Second Temple Jewish forms of thought explain. three moments in the development of Christian theology. First, the existence of a. rudimentary pneumatology correlating to the earliest stage of Trinitarian theology. in which a Trinitarian confession is accompanied by binitarian orientation/logic, . suchas in the thought of Justin Martyr. Second, the development of a sophisticated. pneumatology correlating to a mature second century Trinitarian theology in which a. Trinitarian confession is accompanied by Trinitarian logic. This second moment is. visible in Irenaeus' thought, which eschewed Jewishtraditions that often hindered. theological accounts of his near contemporaries, such as Justin, while adopting and. adapting Jewish traditions that enabled him to strengthen and clarify his own. understanding of the Holy Spirit. Third, the return to a rudimentary account of the. Spirit at the turn of the third century when theologians such as Tertullian, Origen, . and Novatian repudiated Jewish traditions integral to Irenaeus' account of the Holy. Spir

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