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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. 1 Corinthians
    Ephesus · 67
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  2. Romans
    Corinth · 67
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  3. Acts
    Rome · 84
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  4. John
    Ephesus · 100
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  5. 1 John
    Ephesus · 100
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  6. Against Praxeas.
    · 220
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  7. A Treatise of Novatian Concerning the Trinity.
    Rome · 258
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  8. Commentary on the Apocalypse of the Blessed John
    · 303
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  9. De Spiritu Sancto
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  10. The Letters
    Caesarea (Cappadocia) · 379
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  11. The Catechetical Lectures of S. Cyril
    Jerusalem · 386
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  12. Select Orations of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  13. Select Letters of Saint Gregory Nazianzen
    Nazianzus · 390
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  14. Against Eunomius
    Nyssa · 395
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  15. On the Holy Spirit
    Nyssa · 395
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  16. On the Holy Trinity, and of the Godhead of the Holy Spirit
    Nyssa · 395
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  17. On the Holy Spirit
    Milan · 397
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  18. A Commentary on the Acts of the Apostles
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  19. The Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on the Gospel of St. John
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  20. Homilies on First Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  21. The Commentary and Homilies of St. John Chrysostom on Galatians and Ephesians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  22. Homilies on Second Corinthians
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 407
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  23. A Commentary on the Apostles' Creed
    Aquileia · 411
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  24. Jerome and Gennadius. Lives of Illustrious Men
    Bethlehem · 420
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  25. Lectures or Tractates on the Gospel According to St. John
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  26. On the Holy Trinity
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  27. Sermons on Selected Lessons of the New Testament
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  28. The Enchiridion
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  29. A Treatise on Faith and the Creed
    Hippo Regius · 430
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  30. The Ecclesiastical History of Socrates Scholasticus
    Constantinople (Istanbul) · 439
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On the Holy Spirit · Ambrose of Milan

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